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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 >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Jul052022

The Revolutionary Tribunal

The US Supreme Court has become a Republican law enforcement tribunal ... Abortions, guns, religion, environment ... Cherry-picked legal reasoning ... Historical inaccuracies ... Worse to come ... Same sex marriage in Texas ... Washington correspondent Roger Fitch files 

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Sunday
Jun122022

The news: good, bad and awful

Turnbull and the poisoned fountain of justice ... Doug Meagher and Costigan days remembered ... Retired silk pushing for more speed to reduce the road toll ... Lawyers and law v the public's right to know ... Gongs ... Theodora reports 

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Friday
Jun102022

Love, New Zealand style

Polyamorous relationships and property law ... A single love triangle where "couple" means three ... With diagrams ... Winding up the polycule ... Multi-partner relationships the new-new thing ... Leave to appeal granted ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Jun092022

Civil Procedure and the Old Testament

In search of dispute resolution ... What the Bible tells us about negotiation and arbitration ... Eve and the serpent - a failure to negotiate properly ... Catastrophic consequences ... King Solomon and the Commercial Arbitration Act ... Just, quick and cheap ... Eamonn Murphy and Ariana Haghighi escape from a dry tutorial 

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Friday
Jun032022

Street Watch

Federal judge spanked for running the case ... Too much intervention ... Judicial cross-examination ... Rehearing ... Start again ... Also, allowance granted to AAT for "unattributed copying" ... Two-third of a judgment lifted from a party's submissions ... Max Shanahan reports courtside  

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Friday
Jun032022

Labor's law

Mark Dreyfus' agenda ... A process of Demorrisonification ... The NIC ... Refenenda galore - The Voice, The Republic ... Whistleblowing and other freedoms - Collaery, Assange ... The quality of tribunal and commission appointments ... High Court vacancies ... Bureau chief Polly Peck reports from Canberra 

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Wednesday
Jun012022

SCOTUS hollows out America

US Supreme Court ... Overturning Roe v Wade and other travesties ... Using religious beliefs to alter secular law ... Gutting civil rights remedies ... Looser gun regulations ... The malignant Fifth Circuit ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch 

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Tuesday
May312022

Stephen Charles

Stephen Charles AO QC, one of the well-known advocates for a national integrity commission, is on Justinian's Couch ... Career highlights ... Personal weaknesses ... Australia's failing on asylum seekers and refugees ... John Howard's overrated standing ... Would be happy as a teacher 

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Friday
May272022

AAT - a brief history of Coalition connections

Appointments to the AAT from the Brandis, Porter and Cash eras ... 79 party connections identified ... Deputy President again shows her political allegiance ... Plenty of pork ... Another senior member departing ... Tabulation 

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