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 >> 

 

 

Thursday
Sep152016

Further unintelligible conundrums

• DateThursday, September 15, 2016

Gerard Baden-Clay tried a new angle on appeal ... The Qld Court of Appeal swallowed it ... The High Court didn't ... Lingering shadows of R v Kear ... Multiple case concepts ... Allowing an accused two bites of the cherry ... Barry Lane on appellant jiggery-pokery 

Read more | Subscribe

Tuesday
Sep132016

TPP heads towards the ditch

• DateTuesday, September 13, 2016

Voting in Republican states is a daunting ordeal ... Staff-to-prisoner ratio at Guantánamo stands at 33:1 ... Finding new jurisdiction for a war crime ... The TPP - a charter allowing badly behaved US companies to behave badly in other countries ... Star Chambers staffed by corporate lawyers ... Roger Fitch rails against "free trade" initiatives 

Read more | Subscribe

Tuesday
Sep132016

David Lemmings

• DateTuesday, September 13, 2016

On The Couch with Professor David Lemmings ... Exploring the life and times of the English bar in the eighteenth century ... He has also studied the early role of the press in reporting criminal trials and the part it played in forming public opinion about justice and the courts 

Read more 

Thursday
Sep082016

Vixit sees the rise of a new Boris

• DateThursday, September 8, 2016

Victorian bar council plotting to pull out of the Law Council of Australia ... Gentle academic enters the Phillip Street hornets' nest ... Timbo Carmody in Brisbane ethics fest 

Read more | Subscribe

Thursday
Sep082016

Brandis' disclosure phobia

• DateThursday, September 8, 2016

Full Federal Court decision in Brandis v Dreyfus FOI case explained by Alexi Polden ... Brandis said it is a matter of principle to explore the "proper application" of the FOI Act ... However, his case varied between the tribunal and the court ... Full Feds not impressed with AG's case 

Read more | Subscribe

Wednesday
Sep072016

Investigation into prosecution conduct at murder trial

• DateWednesday, September 7, 2016

Murder conviction quashed ... Acquittal verdict by CCA in the case of a refugee where vital evidence was not disclosed at trial by the prosecution ... DPP orders an investigation into prosecution failures ... Justin Pen reports from ringside 

Read more | Subscribe

Tuesday
Sep062016

A (Senior) Policeperson's Lot is not an 'Appy One

• DateTuesday, September 6, 2016

Rebuke for top coppers over failure to direct proceedings at Lindt Café siege is overblown and misplaced ... Different objectives for police and standing armies ... Arresting constables and the common law ... Family connections in South Australia's silk trade ... Procrustes offers a wine tip 

Read more | Subscribe

Sunday
Sep042016

Jockeying for silk in Queensland

• DateSunday, September 4, 2016

QC season underway in Qld as barristers rush for royal bling ... Sadly, the Queens Counsel bauble has failed to lift business at the Brisneyland bar  

Read more | Subscribe

Tuesday
Aug302016

Poms take the online English Reports back to the bosom

• DateTuesday, August 30, 2016

Talk about disruption ... Council of Law Reporting sends divorce papers to LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for publication in Australia, Canada, NZ and USA ... The old law publishing world coming apart ... End of the oligopoly in sight 

Read more | Subscribe

Page 1 ... 139 140 141 142 143 ... 171 Next 9 Entries »