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
Jun102016

Brandis neuters the Solicitor General

• DateFriday, June 10, 2016

Attorney General Brandis asserts political influence over Solicitor General Justin Gleeson ... Government access to the Solicitor General to be controlled by AG ... More outsourcing of constitutional advise to the private bar ... Ideological agenda at play 

Read more | Subscribe

Friday
Jun102016

The waiver that never was

• DateFriday, June 10, 2016

Lawrie v Lawler ... Case that has riven the Top End legal community ... Foreign judges brought in for appeal that basically clears the former president of the NT bar of misconduct findings ... Commission of inquiry set up by political opponents of former minister ... Full examination of the judgment from Hannah Ryan 

Read more | Subscribe

Wednesday
Jun082016

Tales from a small triangular island

• DateWednesday, June 8, 2016

The Murray Scheme ... Trust account interest for unemployed lawyers ... Cocktails on the pier ... Judge's gastronomic experiences in Manchester ... Notes from The Map 

Read more | Subscribe

Monday
Jun062016

Ian Hancock

• DateMonday, June 6, 2016

Ian Hancock is the biographer of Tom Hughes QC, a hero of the Sydney bar ... He has submitted to Justinian's probing, intimate questions on the eve of the book's publication ... Biographing a biographer  

Read more 

Friday
Jun032016

Treats from the Top End

• DateFriday, June 3, 2016

Wyvill gets a breather from NT appeal court ... Grant Samuel rejigs Slater & Gordon ... Barrister suggests that if his client had more money someone else would have been briefed ... Bluto Watch 

Read more | Subscribe

Thursday
Jun022016

Wagnerian opera goes centre stage in Brisneyland

• DateThursday, June 2, 2016

Big defamation action grips Banana-Benders ... Concrete Kings v Mouth from the South ... Big Al Jones doubles down ... Taxpayers pick up the tab for Can Do's and Jiving Jarrod's apology-free zone 

Read more | Subscribe

Saturday
May282016

All stand

• DateSaturday, May 28, 2016

Special law to enforce respect for judges ... Legislative loopiness ... Closing the gap between contempt and disrespect 

Read more | Subscribe

Thursday
May262016

Stick it up your briefs

• DateThursday, May 26, 2016

Queensland bar council says national equitable briefing policy is potentially "divisive" ... BAQ won't play along with Law Council's plans to improve the lot of women barristers ... Qld. is different, says bar prez, Christopher Hughes ... Lofty correspondence 

Read more | Subscribe

Thursday
May262016

Wiggy conniptions

• DateThursday, May 26, 2016

Dewigging transcript ... An uplifting piece of transcript from May 24 is doing the rounds of Vic's Bar n' Grill ... Justice Kevin Bell gets serious about wigs' policy ... Turning up wearing a wig is an insult to Earl Warren CJ ... Briefs grovel and remove their hairpieces ... Wig protocol a matter of law ... Judge expresses his profound disappointment 

Read more | Subscribe

Page 1 ... 144 145 146 147 148 ... 172 Next 9 Entries »