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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 ... 


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
Mar302023

Human Rights Commission says "boo"

Crisis prone Human Rights Commission puts its head above the trench ... Human Rights Act proposed for Australia ... Years of pallid rights activity during Coalition reign ... Unsuitable appointments ... Out-of-step HR commissioner junks the Voice ... Rights legislation mauled in the UK ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Mar302023

The money or the box

No pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ... Lawyers who hatched the plan to spring Henry Keogh from the clink fail in fees bid ... The Manock defence ... Incompetence ... Procrustes brings down the curtain on a 30-year long production 

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Wednesday
Mar292023

Australia's kakistocracy

Robodebt - a Frankenstein Monster ... Technology unchecked ... Liberal governments' traditional distain for welfare recipients ... Targeting the most vulnerable ... Legal concerns ... Failure at every level ... Duck shoving and deceit exposed by Royal Commission ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Friday
Mar242023

Voices from on High

Capturing the essence of constitutional thinking ... Three former High Court judges write in favour of the Voice ... One against (three guesses) ... Overview of the principal contentions ... Justinian wields the scissors and paste pot 

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Thursday
Mar232023

Voices in his head

A legislated Indigenous Voice based on the Constitution is no different to what we are used to ... No complications ... What Third House? ... Scare campaign by dingbats about tsunami of litigation ... Plus - Coco and the magic art of policing ... Fitted up by Plod ... Procrustes vents 

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Wednesday
Mar222023

Election fever

On The Couch with NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman and Opposition justice spokesman Michael Daley ... Duelling contentions ... Vision statements ... The happiness meter ... Last meals 

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Friday
Mar172023

Fresh hell

Importance Witness in claim for Aboriginality found to be alive .. Federal Court corrects the record ... How to get ahead - masterclass spiked ... Energiser batteries implanted in Sam Hay KC ... Another slow delivery from Jenni Hill J ... Theodora reports

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Wednesday
Mar152023

A speechless Voice

Bar brawl over The Voice ... Incandescent outcry over Walker SC's comments about The Voice ... New scheme from right of centre to cauterise The Voice ... Planet to the rescue ... Muddled thoughts from indentured hacks ... Peace, order and good government 

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Thursday
Mar092023

Your green slip is showing

Third Party in strife ... Mile long delays for medical assessments ... NSW judicial officer fires back with lengthy screed ... Improper process ... Parliamentary committee spanks judge ... Failure to recuse ... Theodora reports 

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