Top
SEARCH
Justinian News

Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025 ... Interacting with deemed state entities could land you in pokey ... Another layer of counter-terror law to make us all feel safer ... More >> 

Politics Media Law Society

My Role in Gough's Downfall ... Reporter-at-Large … Scoops that flushed out the deceit behind the Dismissal … Big anniversary chinwag in Canberra on November 11 … The combined forces of Kerr, Ellicott and cousin Garfield … Constitutional manipulation … Maurice Byers to the rescue ... Read more >> 

Editor's Choice
  • Articles, Opinions, Notions & Cases
    • Financial Review
      Boffins from the Centre for Public Integrity say the FOI Bill is a regressive restriction on government accountability
    • The Nightly
      Blood out of stone ... Ruthless Linda Reynolds dragging David Sharaz into bankruptcy
    • Pearls and Irritations
      October 7 can and should be remembered by Israelis and by Palestinians as marking the commencement of the genocide ... Greg Barns SC
    • The New York Times
      The US Solicitor General ... Trump's man at the Supreme Court has an impressive success rate
    • Bar Association of NSW
      New senior counsel appointments with professional backgrounds
This area does not yet contain any content.
Free Newsletter
Justinian Columnists

Knit one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

Blow the whistle

 

News snips ...

 Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >> 

Justinian's Bloggers

Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"If we’re only picking people who have got completely lily-white records then we’ll be missing out on a lot of people that can contribute to public life." 

NSW Premier Chris Minns, endorsing Mal Lanyon, his pick for Police Commissioner, whose contributions to public life include shouting drunken obscenities at a paramedic who came to his aid, and commandeering a police launch for private entertainment on New Year's eve ... Read more flatulence ... 

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

Justinian Featurettes

Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

Justinian's archive

News Desk Special ... Angelic death notices from the bar ... Soapy slips on FOI changes ... Unusual interlocutory costs order for Chris Dale ... Judge ticks off Abbott in letters' page ... Knock About's festive salute to the coppers ... January 19, 2015 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Friday
Oct212016

Judges behaving badly

• DateFriday, October 21, 2016

Global round-up of judicial misbehaviour ... The USA, Canada, Nigeria, UK and Brazil ... Judges indicted, expelled and sent to the star chamber ... Money, sex and stupidity the main cause of judicial ruin ... Justin Pen reports 

Read more | Subscribe

Wednesday
Oct192016

The Misleader-General

• DateWednesday, October 19, 2016

Brandis trying to remember whether he got a fee discount from his AAT selection ... Grim reaper sweeps up George Masterman and former forensic medicine man ... Tickets for Sydney Grill Room elections ... Can former judges still be QCs? ... Proper finery for attendees at Melbourne jamboree ... And for High Court judges 

Read more | Subscribe

Sunday
Oct162016

Gleeson ahead on points, but not enough to sink Brandis

• DateSunday, October 16, 2016

Attorney General Brandis is likely to survive this latest manifestation of his ineptitude ... Control freak attorney general damaged ... Parliamentary committee a circus ... Solicitor General Gleeson assisted by the performance of Coalition warthogs ... Legal Services Direction faces revocation ... SNAFU 

Read more | Subscribe

Saturday
Oct152016

Mental as anything

• DateSaturday, October 15, 2016

Pleb-O-Cite ... Same sex marriage ... The debate has already attracted some pretty nasty and hurtful comments ... A campaign could get quite lunar ... But media lawyer Graham Hryce argues that using the mental health argument to close off discussion is a step too far 

Read more 

Thursday
Oct132016

Equine milkshakes

• DateThursday, October 13, 2016

Frothy concoctions for racehorses ... Trainer with priors in the milkshake department ... Winding track to Vic Appeals over 0.1 millimoles per litre above the prescribed limit of muscle relaxant ... Rounding-up ... Gold for Kev at the Schweppes Handicap ... Barry Lane is trackside  

Read more | Subscribe

Thursday
Oct132016

May the force be with you

• DateThursday, October 13, 2016

NSW Ombudsman takes aim at legislative changes to police conduct oversight regime ... New legislation lets coppers off the hook ... Limited power for Law Enforcement Conduct Commission to investigate serious misconduct and serious maladministration ... Police can determine the level of independent oversight ... Rebecca Wong reports 

Read more | Subscribe 

Friday
Oct072016

Don't mess with Justin Gleeson

• DateFriday, October 7, 2016

Quite clear that attorney general George Brandis misled the parliament ... Consultations about quite different matters ... Meaning of the word "counsel" ... Meaning of the Law Officers Act ... Out-of-context and twisted selection of parts of a letter from the solicitor general ... Brandis' dishonesty  

Read more | Subscribe

Friday
Oct072016

Vixit update

• DateFriday, October 7, 2016

Fink's report on Vixit ... Discontent with Law Council's travel expenditure ... Conferenceville ... Victorian Bar wants more LCA money spent on barristers' problems ... No plan B for the Leave case ... Justin Pen reports 

Read more | Subscribe

Tuesday
Oct042016

The carnivorous world of litigation funding

• DateTuesday, October 4, 2016

Litigation funder skates round non-compete agreement ... OK to reach out to former "client" but not a former "Client" ... Where Upper and lower case clash in the field of battle ... Solicitation without direct dealing ... No contempt ... Naaman Zhou reports 

Read more | Subscribe

Page 1 ... 137 138 139 140 141 ... 171 Next 9 Entries »