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Sofronoff gets up on parliamentary privilege
Justice Abraham rules in favour of Walter Sofronoff on the issue of parliamentary privilege in his litigation with the ACT Integrity Commission, Massar Briggs Law ordered to pay indemnity costs for false citations in court documents generated using AI (see [2025] FCA 731).
Sovereign citizens get 30 days in prison
In MICHELMORE -v- BROWN [No 7] [2025] WASC 247 Solomon J sentences sovereign citizens to 30 days imprisonment, repeated failure to disclose traffic infringements leads to finding of professional misconduct against Qld lawyer Benjamin O'Brien (see [2025] QCAT 190)