Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >>
"Invasion" of the United States ...Trump deportations ... Detention in gulags ... How much of an enemy does an alien have to be? ... Trump judge turns the tables ... Bush's war on terror shows the way ... Forum shopping for habeas cases ... Roger Fitch files from Washington ... Read more >>
Justinian is taking a break during May ... Normal operations will recommence in June ...
Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >>
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Letter from London ... Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty ... Read more >>
Judgment of the week ... Justice Ian Harrison in the NSW Supremes dismisses apprehended bias application ... Facebook posts by judge's tipstaff ... Claim made by family values applicant that HH's associate supports gay rights ... Battle with a noted sexual equality campaigner ... Purple pride ... Jurisdictional issue ... Finding that cases are decided by judges, not their staff ... From Justinian's Archive, May 10, 2019 ... Read more >>
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Thursday, July 18, 2019 A new film from the maker of Lives of Others ... Portrait of a young artist in Germany during and after the war ... Sterilisation of the "unfit" ... The aunt, the artist, the Nazi doctor and his daughter ... A romantic epic about art, love and war, reviewed by Miss Lumière
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, July 16, 2019 The NSW CA turns down two appeals from solicitors in strife with the Bureau de Spank ... Old timer's dodgy dealings with estates and property ... Suspended with conditions ... Now struck off the jam roll ... Another solicitor forgot to tell the Law Society about her suspension as a migration agent ... So many things to worry about ... Duty of candour ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Court in the Act • Thursday, July 11, 2019 Sal Vasta in fresh horror ... More bullying, overbearing and threatening conduct from the judge ... Vasta makes a pig's ear out of application to amend a statement of claim ... Transcript reveals Vasta's alarming judicial style ... Litigant in person removed from court ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Critics Corner, Miss Lumière • Monday, July 8, 2019 Unreal events rendered lifeless in Red Joan ... The chutney-making housewife who passed on atomic research secrets to the Soviet Union ... A nice job at the Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association ... The true story of the spy Melita Norwood is yet to come ... Miss Lumière is deeply unmoved with this version
Barely Legal • Sunday, July 7, 2019 Panda politics at USyd's Student Representative Council ... Student politicians terminate the SRC's long-standing lawyer ... More lawyers enter the melee at 10 paces ... Allegations back and forth on Facebook ... Lawyer refuses to act for SRC president in defamation case ... Barely Legal sums up the issues
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, July 3, 2019 US Supreme Court washes its hands of election rigging ... Redistricting ... Trump lawlessness ... The president losing droves of court cases ... Financial irregularities ... Cosmetic inquiries guarantee that no one is responsible for war crimes ... Persecution of migrant children ... Roger Fitch reporting from Washington