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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 >> 

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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 >> 

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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 >> 

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 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 ... 


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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 >> 

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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 >> 


 

 

Wednesday
Feb142024

Fujitsu jujitsu

Procrustes skilfully connects his medical appointments, Robodebt and the British Post Office ... Top class venting ... Government by computer ... Privatisation ... Harassment by machines ... Reports and warnings ignored ... Death and destruction ... Bullying bosses ... Where's Terry Carney when we need him? 

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Monday
Feb122024

From the bar table

Yelling counsel ... Heckling ... Pointing and shouting ... Minister goes off piste as a model litigant ... Conduct unbecoming ... From our courts roundsperson, Ginger Snatch  

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Friday
Feb022024

Cossack in orbit with Planet

Walter Sofronoff and Janet Albrechtsen ... Lehrmann trial investigation ... An alluring coupling ... Sensitive information at play ... Feeding select reptiles ... Claims of prejudice and bias infecting the report ... Where's Brucie's house? ... Comment 

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Thursday
Feb012024

The slow lane - no overtaking

End of year deliveries ... Delayed judgments under the tree ... Records broken ... Trouble with time ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Jan312024

Dodging bullets

Idi Amin and Roger Rogerson - brothers-in-law ... Procrustes draws an analogy ... Cultivating psychopaths and ignoring the consequences ... How Rogerson spun stories to gullible hacks ... The killer cop with a lisp 

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Tuesday
Jan302024

A not so dry January

Floyd Alexander-Hunt's Letter from London ... The lawyer-juror who searched the internet for answers ... 15-months is seen as a serious delay for judgment delivery ... Large-scale miscarriage of justice in fake fraud allegations ... The delivery driver who acted as an agent for panel beaters 

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Monday
Jan292024

The Disunited States of America

The cowboys of Texas ... Asserting control over immigration ... Operation Lone Star ... Confederate theory of secession is alive and kicking ... Usurping federal powers ... Trump judges to the rescue ... Wild defence claims in election conspiracy case ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Monday
Jan082024

Wrap of the Lehrmann defamation trial

Written closing submissions in Lehrmann defamation proceedings ... Claim of "confirmation bias" by Channel 10 ... Applicant and respondent both said to be dishonest ... Lehrmann wants substantial damages, even sexual intercourse is established ... Lehrmann's denials amount to "utterly wicked" conduct ... From Stephen Murray, Courts Editor for the Gazette of Law & Journalism 

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Friday
Dec222023

2023 - Lest We Forget

A flood of unhappy memories ... A Voiceless Nation ... Corruption triage ... Judges in the slow lane ... Defamatorium ... Saloon refurbishment ... Tribunal upgrade ... Stinging Nettle v The Judd ... Quotes chiseled in stone ... Theodora reports 

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