Quo Vadis, Aida?
Bosnian war crimes ... The Srebrenica massacre ... The fruitless struggle to save a family ... Failure of the United Nations and NATO ... Europe's worst bloodshed since WW11 ... Miss Lumière at the...
View ArticleIs all really fair in Love and Thoms?
Incarceration of "non-citizen, non-alien" ... A new chapter ... Fallout from Love & Thoms ... Brendan Thoms tells the High Court his immigration detention was illegal ... Officials' mistaken...
View ArticleStephen 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...
View ArticleAssignment Assange
Q & A about Julian Assange with Greg Barns SC, adviser to the Australian Assange Campaign ... Charges ... Journalism ... Espionage Act ... First Amendment ... Extradition decision and the prospects...
View ArticleDesires of the flesh
Remote vs in-the-flesh hearings … Split bench of Allsop, Bell, and Ferguson CJs… Less Q & A … More flexibility … Less humanity … More efficiency … Judicial hits on YouTube … Coat of arms not just a...
View ArticlePrima Facie
Sexual assault and the law ... Rape (alleged) by a member of chambers ... Suzie Miller's play brought to the screen ... Jodie Comer is chilling - and thrilling ... Scorching indictment of the law .......
View ArticleThe judge in an unstable world
Max Shanahan interviews José Matos, President of the International Association of Judges ... Judges hanging on under autocratic regimes ... Role of the IAJ ... Defence of the judiciary ... Fleeing the...
View ArticleRBG: Of Many, One
Sydney Theatre Company's production of Suzie Miller's play about Ruth Bader Ginsberg ... Her life in and outside the law ... Heather Mitchell as "Notorious RBG" ... Review by Braham Dabscheck Heather...
View ArticleThe captured court
Corporate influence targets top US judges ... Dark Money funding access to SCOTUS ... Ethics violations undisturbed ... Federalist Society turnstile ... Feedback loop ... Hunting expeditions ... Leaks...
View ArticleKompromat
Russians and their fake evidence ... Alliance Française in Siberia ... On the run from the FSB ... Svetlana to the rescue ... Suspense ... Miss Lumière at the cinema Kompromat, the new film from...
View ArticleWendler goes West
Margaret River wines ... Big names and garagiste operators ... Doctors and their vines ... "Bigness" beckons ... Wine writer Gabriel Wendler's month in the bush During the Christmas vacation my wife...
View ArticleAfrican Moot
Law students in Africa ... Pan African mooting ... Intense competition ... Idealism versus ambition ... Friendships strained ... "African values" and human rights ... Documentary reviewed by Max...
View ArticleAustralia's kakistocracy
Robodebt - a Frankenstein Monster ... Technology unchecked ... Liberal governments' traditional distain for welfare recipients ... Targeting the most vulnerable ... Legal concerns ... Failure at every...
View ArticleLaw of dispossession
Dodge Rose ... Dead end plots in an extraordinary story combining property law, succession, squatters, dispossession, and colonial banking history ... Destitute in Kings Cross while sheep fatten at...
View ArticleLimbo
Cold case opened - then shut ... Young Aboriginal girl goes missing from a bleak outback town ... Police indifference and brutality ... Miss Lumière reviews Ivan Sen's masterful new film Limbo...
View ArticlePeter Lyons
Leverhulme RIP ... UK-based correspondent for Justinian dies unexpectedly ... Wonderful writer, a creative teacher, skilled advocate, scholar and friend ... Tribute to Peter Lyons ... By Richard...
View ArticleLaw 20.1.2
Cricket and constitutional government ... The jurisprudence of dead balls ... Jurisdiction ... Lawn bowls c.f. cricket ... Ethical consistency ... Democratic inclinations ... Bazball ... Cricketing...
View ArticleLeon Zwier
Melbourne lawyer Leon Zwier On The Couch ... Honouring the legacy of a former partner ... The hour of need - assisting Brittany Higgins and Eryn Jean Norvill ... The misuse of documents obtained...
View ArticleHow to Kill a Client
Big Law ... Murder, money and misogyny ... Dealing with an unspeakable client ... Too much testosterone ... Crime thriller from Joanna Jenkins - someone who knows where the bodies are buried ... Book...
View ArticleTassie Tiger's Last Race
Peter Lyons RIP ... Leverhulme's trackside send-off ... "Advokkacy forever" ... York as Shangri La ... Racehorses ... Training lawyers ... Poetry ... A huge fan club at the parade ring ... Funeral...
View ArticleSuzie Miller
A writer on fire ... New plays, TV series, films and a novel ... The lawyer turned playwright ... The importance of Prima Facie ... Sexual assault trials ... Violence in the prison system ... The sport...
View ArticleLarceny and fine wine
Wine thievery is all the rage ... Expensive bottles lifted from their rightful owners ... Product that is easily on-sold or fenced ... Top end drops now snugly located in Sydney's legal district, under...
View ArticleFinn's finale
Paul Finn ... Former federal judge and serious academic ... 1946-2023 ... Equitable duties and good government ... The outsider who should have gone to the High Court ... Lunching connections ... The...
View ArticleBlood and greed
Book review ... Killing for Country: A Family Story ... The colonial land grab ... Entitlement capitalism and the transformation of Australia in the 19th century ... The killing fields of the Native...
View ArticleCreative possibilities for the law of torts
Barbara McDonald - the high priestess of torts and privacy ... Former torts law professor at the University of Sydney ... What's on the horizon for the development of privacy and other torts ... The...
View ArticleJulian Burnside
A barrister, much of whose career has been in the public eye ... Counsel to the rich and the deprived ... Flirting with politics ... Career change ... Retirement ... Relaxation and writing await ... On...
View ArticleGrant Donaldson SC
High profile Sand Groper from the WA bar n' grill is On the Couch ... Films, music, books ... Cases and crimes ... Preventative detention in migration cases ... Closed courts ... Eyes shut yet still...
View ArticleCobras in the courtroom
Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia, by Simon Butt ... The problems go right the way to the top ... Corruption ... Inadequate reasoning ... Bribes ... Intimidation ... Judicial mafia ... Cases under the...
View ArticleWinners and grinners
Smiling policy for lawyers ... Better coordination required ... When smiling runs amok ... Happy lawyers and glum clients ... Delighted clients and anxious lawyers ... Moments of intense seriousness...
View ArticleVeneto Verona Vino
Know your Valpolicellas ... Justinian's wine correspondent let loose in the vineyards of Veneto ... Thomas Becket and Mozart get together ... The perfect drop with stew and polenta ... Lots going on in...
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