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Sep 15, 2025

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3 min read

HCA special leave sought in Emma Lovell matter

Special leave is being sought to appeal the decision of R v HCZ [2025] QCA 147 (relating to the murder of Emma Lovell), Gina Rinehart's company Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd identified as contributor to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's legal fund.

Sep 14, 2025

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7 min read

Anne Twomey on the Whitlam dismissal

Anne Twomey's latest Constitutional Clarion video discusses confusion about the reserve powers of the Governor-General and the relevant precedents in 1975, Clive Palmer human rights complaint referred to QLD Supreme Court, SXSW Sydney next month will feature "AI as judge, jury, and executioner: The ethics of automated sentencing".

Sep 11, 2025

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4 min read

65 new positions at ODPP

NSW ODPP announces that an additional 65 full time equivalent positions have been approved for the 25/26 financial year, bringing the overall staff working at the ODPP to more than 1100.

Sep 10, 2025

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5 min read

350,000 word judgment

Beach J's judgment in Epic Games, Inc v Apple Inc [2025] FCA 900 published online, Clive Palmer’s lawyer Sam Iskander ‘misplaced’ $2.5m worth of gold.

Sep 9, 2025

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5 min read

Partner at 29

AFR interviews Emma Covacevich (Chief Executive Partner at Clayton Utz); details of statement of claim in Sam and Brittany Groth proceedings emerge.

Sep 8, 2025

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5 min read

Lehrmann v Brereton + Farrell

Bruce Lerhmann commences proceedings in the FCA against Commonwealth Special Minister of State Don Farrell and Paul Brereton of the NACC, in [2025] FCA 1092 Perram J draws comparison between pleadings by Coles and Heironymus Bosch’s 1515 triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Sep 7, 2025

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6 min read

Erin Patterson livestream today

Livestream of Erin Patterson's sentencing from 9:30am AEST today, Commissioner of Police v Mary-Jane Liddicoat in NSW Supreme Court today (re Sydney Harbour Bridge anti-establishment rally), National Justice Project and Portable collaborate on "Hear Me Out" tool.

Sep 4, 2025

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6 min read

5 grants of special leave

HCA grants special leave in 5 matters (and refuses special leave the Ben Roberts-Smith matter). Meanwhile the "Self Represented Litigants Association" writes its own Act: Self Represented Litigants Protection Act 2025 (Cth).

Sep 3, 2025

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7 min read

5 decisions from the High Court

HCA hands down 5 decisions, Victorian Legal Services Board varies the practising certificate of the Victorian legal practitioner identified as ‘Mr Dayal’ for improper AI use (see Dayal [2024] FedCFamC2F 1166).

Sep 2, 2025

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5 min read

Lattouf v ABC penalty hearing

Today there will be a livestreamed hearing before Justice Rangiah (FCA) to determine whether the ABC should be ordered to pay a pecuniary penalty for contraventions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (and if so, in what amount).

Sep 1, 2025

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4 min read

Hallucinated citations strike again

Gibson DCJ presides over matter where statement of claim cites a hallucinated judgment attributed to her - see Gribble v ESSENTIAL ENERGY trading as Essential Energy [2025] NSWDC 344, [17].

Aug 31, 2025

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10 min read

Bell CJ on the great challenge of generative AI

Bell CJ discusses change at the bar and the great challenge of gen AI, Victorian Bar issues guidance on the ethical use of generative AI, statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy likely to be tested in proceedings filed by Sam and Brittany Groth in the FCA.

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