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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 >> 

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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 >> 

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      Debra Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... The ins and outs of live streaming and the media's access to documents
    • International Criminal Court
      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
    • The Age
      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
    • The New York Times
      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
    • Law Dork
      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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Justinian Columnists

"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 >> 

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Justinian's Bloggers

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 >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

Justinian Featurettes

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 >> 

Justinian's archive

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 >> 

 

 

Monday
Nov192018

Oh, sweetheart

• DateMonday, November 19, 2018

Rushing About Part Two ... Geoffrey Rush v Daily Telegraph ... The trial ... The touch ... The theatre of reputation ... Which breast? ... Lies and "disgusting lies" ... Complainant, a brave and impressive witness in the face of "florid and extravagant" cross-examination ... A telling email about reputation ... Scrumptious and Yummy  

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Monday
Nov192018

Oh, Wigney

• DateMonday, November 19, 2018

Rushing About Part Three ... Geoffrey Rush v Daily Telegraph ... The #MeSue movement ... Truth - get thee behind me ... Responsible, public interest journalism a lost cause ... Australia - a free press backwater ... Is the Federal Court up to the task? 

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Tuesday
Nov132018

Race based vote gutting

• DateTuesday, November 13, 2018

Post mid-terms ... Trump toady takes over as AG ... Voter suppression in overdrive ... Racial tone to election rigging ... Roberts court heads off the "danger" of non-white voting ... Trump's election stunts ... From Roger Fitch ... Our Man in Washington 

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Monday
Nov122018

The grovel that dare not speak its name

• DateMonday, November 12, 2018

Going beyond the call of duty for the Obeids ... Prominent barrister birched by the bar council over conduct during the Obeids' action against ICAC ... Lack of contrition ... Tight lipped apology ... Operation Jasper and coal exploration corruption 

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Monday
Nov052018

Murder most foul

• DateMonday, November 5, 2018

Kathleen Folbigg ... Keli Lane ... Tim Anderson ... Gordon Wood ... Convictions and quashes ... Prisoners walk free ... Speculations and winning ways ... The line that is crossed ... Where is the line? ... Prosecutorial controversies ... A special report 

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Monday
Nov052018

Law of the tribe

• DateMonday, November 5, 2018

Former USyd law dean champions Indigenous law degree in Canada ... Juris indigenarum doctor ... Building trust over time ... Australian law schools yet to embrace the opportunity ... Asking tough questions about Indigenous legal orders ... Corporate support ... Nick Bonyhady talks with Jeremy Webber  

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Wednesday
Oct312018

Encryption legislation is "fatally flawed" 

• DateWednesday, October 31, 2018

The government's proposed law to unscramble encrypted communications ... Threats to citizens and to journalism ... Confidential sources placed at greater risk of exposure ... A new invasion of privacy amid an abundance of government intrusions ... Cybersecurity threatened ... Criticism from UN privacy rapporteur ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Monday
Oct292018

Letters to the beak

• DateMonday, October 29, 2018

VicAppeals speaks ... Solicitor wrote letters to a magistrate while case was on foot ... Failure to notify the other side ... Professional misconduct ... Lengthy career as a lawyer ... Clear contravention of professional rules ... Lack of insight ... Whacked with a wet lettuce leaf ... Louise Hall reports

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Tuesday
Oct232018

The bone-saw massacre

• DateTuesday, October 23, 2018

US arms sales to the Saudis get in the way of digging too deeply into the death of Jamal Khashoggi ... A journalist fighting a man with a bone-saw ... Something unfortunate is bound to happen ... The Trump Doctrine on international disorder ... Jolly John Kerr's correspondence with The Queen ... Back in court on November 28 ... Procrustes roams the waterfront 

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