Donald Trump has launched a fragrance collection that promises to embody confidence, resilience, and victory. A satirical dive into the world of presidential perfumes reveals why this might just be the most talked-about Christmas gift of the season.

A retired High Court judge is supporting a call for family lawyers and judges to have a greater awareness of the impact of trauma on people to avoid unjust outcomes for victims of abuse.

Politicians flee as demonstrators surge into the Senate crying ‘traitors’ at the outgoing president’s ‘dangerous’ judicial reforms.

First Supreme Court president declines a new term in former colony’s final court of appeal ‘for personal reasons’. Lord Phillips’s decision was welcomed by freedom of speech campaigners, but is criticised by pro-democracy campaigners.

Mr Justice Marcus Smith’s actions amounted to an abuse of power, the judicial conduct investigations office said.

The Mini has had its most important reboot since The Italian Job — and the spirit of cool Britannia has gone electric.

Meanwhile in Brazil, Elon Musk has called him an “evil dictator.” Police officers in São Paulo once nicknamed him “Kojak,” after the shaven-headed New York TV detective who would bend the rules to catch the bad guys. His supporters insist he is a “crusader,” the last line of defence for democracy in Brazil. The shaven-headed and conservative Alexandre de Moraes has become an unlikely hero of the left after taking on the X owner over disinformation on social media.

A report on the year’s appointments of judges and magistrates shows a better picture for women, but there are still too few ethnic minority post-holders The latest figures on judicial diversity over the past decade reveal that the percentage of women appointed has risen from 24 to 38 per cent, but the appointment of black judges has remained at 1 per cent.

Here are three writers for The Atlantic trying to explain the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity and what it means for the future of the American presidency.

A lack of action over reported bullying and intimidation by an employment tribunal judge brings into question how transparently judicial misconduct is handled in the United Kingdom. Alison McDermott, who worked at Sellafield, drew attention to Judge Lancaster’s alleged behaviour when he rejected her whistleblowing detriment claim in 2021. This article was originally published by The Times.

We mere mortals from the tent court on Great South Road in Papakura are yet again ahead of the judicial resourcefulness curve as plans to repurpose the local RSA into a new court are afoot. In keeping, really, with the ponderings of a former UK High Court judge telling The Times’ Crime and Justice Commission that pop-up courts could cut the case backlog and ‘line up community with justice’.  HERE

When in Rome, try your hand at 22 gestures per 100 words. Italians have a saying. “A gesture,” they begin, probably while waving a hand for emphasis, “is worth more than a thousand words.” Italians have (to little surprise) been found to be more expressive than the rest of us.

The system has been ‘degraded’, ‘starved’, and ‘cut right to the bone’, according to Lord Burnett of Maldon. It is not really a good time for the justice system. Even stalwart supporters in the past have turned into doom-mongers. A case in point is Lord Burnett of Maldon, who until recently was the Lord Chief Justice, the senior judge in England and Wales. Burnett warned that the criminal justice system has become so degraded by budget cuts that it will take years to recover.

At this time of year, we’re looking for the uplifting moments that make us smile and reflect. We’ve found two goodies for you to watch: The Irish pub’s Christmas ad that went viral, and St Andrew’s College cover of Stairway to Heaven.

You would be forgiven for never having heard of the Oxford Word of the Year for 2023 if you are not a member of Gen Z, but language experts chose it to show how that generation and its online culture is expanding our day-to-day vernacular and will continue to shape language trends in the future.

For more than a decade from 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor had a strong claim to being the most powerful woman in America. She was the first woman to sit on the US Supreme Court from 1981 who strove for public consensus and consistently voted against repealing Roe v Wade. Sandra Day O’Connor, US Supreme Court judge, was born on March 26, 1930. She died of complications from dementia on December 1, 2023, aged 93. This has drawn from her obituary published in The Times, Saturday December 2, 2023.