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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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"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 >> 


 

 

Friday
Oct192018

Cat & Co strike again

Fledgling commercial law newswire hits the inboxes ... Former editors of Law360 in the US set-up shop in Melbourne ... Rough end to the New York experience amid staff decision to unionise over allegations of "mercurial management style " and crushing workloads ... Decision to let Lawyerly "speak for itself" 

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Thursday
Oct182018

The Prothonotary pounces

Former politician struck off after applying for a ticket ... Plundering the funds of the Health Services Union to pay for hookers and campaign expenses ... Prolonged dishonesty for personal gain ... Character remains unreformed ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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Sunday
Oct142018

Penfold's Reserve Bin

Drowsy procrastination in full swing ... Lakeside litigation ... Family court effusions ... No sizzling sausages for family judges ... Carmody the Coalition's dream sentencer ... Longer terms for stale judges ... Goings On with Theodora 

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Thursday
Oct112018

Tales from Taswegia

UPDATE ... Dutton's Tasmanian love child ... Slow wind-up ... Sentencing squabble: judges are sitting too close for the comfort of the convicted ... The forgotten prisoner ... The Devil's latest musings from The Map 

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Thursday
Oct112018

An illegitimate SCOTUS

The US Supreme Court has been bought ... Long campaign to stack the court with judges favourable to corporate interests ... Huge lobbying and spending to secure Kavanaugh's confirmation ... Guns, God and presidential power ... The mid-terms and intensified voter purging ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Monday
Oct082018

Terrifying news - nothing's happening

Police and their terrorism powers - not much to report ... Inspector Bruce looks at the Top End's secret corruption ... Discriminating amendments ... The bench gets slow backup for "historic" sentencing reforms ... Standoff over appointment to the Children's Court ... Polly Peck reports from Macquarie Street 

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Thursday
Oct042018

Man of property bids adieu to the jam roll

Failure to pay tax, and employees super ... Borrowing heavily from his mother ... Lacking evidence to support bi-polar claim ... Extravagant lifestyle ... Generous payments for children and former wife ... Jennifer Cooke reports 

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Tuesday
Oct022018

Two Aunties

The long history of ABC dramas and threats to the public broadcaster's independence ... Churchill led the way with attacks on the Beeb ... Litigation that reinforced independence ... The buffeting will never stop ... Procrustes tunes in 

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Thursday
Sep272018

A tribute to Homer Simpson

Homer mysteriously appears in consent orders ... A long way from Springfield ... Country solicitor turns on client with complaint to judge, asking for a reconsideration of the orders granted ... Client's interest ... Confidentiality ... Nick Bonyhady reports 

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