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• Court case over Glencore's Great Artesian Basin carbon capture storage plan ends - ABC News
   

• Glamour lawyer Zoe Davis of ZAD Law suspended amid fake court document charges [Herald Sun paywall]

  A Melbourne Kim K lookalike lawyer has been suspended by the legal watchdog after allegedly faking court documents and falsely claiming that a client was in hospital when she wasn’t.
   

• Solicitor charged with choking again after bail granted [Daily Telegraph paywall]

  An eastern suburbs solicitor granted bail on choking and sexual assault allegations was charged again with choking a different woman before he could even be released from police custody.
   

• This senior priest claims he was ‘outed’ on Grindr. Now he’s taking the gay dating app to court [SMH paywall]
  Lawyers for Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill say they hope the case will serve as a warning to other Grindr users.
   

• Young man with severe intellectual disabilities to spend two years in Queensland prison without facing trial | Queensland | The Guardian
   

• Victorian mother jailed for forcing daughter to marry man who murdered her six weeks later - ABC News
   

• Commonwealth Bank fined $36k after pleading guilty to not paying long service entitlements to staff - ABC News
   

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• Appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal | Our ministers – Attorney-General’s portfolio

  The Australian Government has made 18 new appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). These appointments include four Senior Members and 14 Members.
   

• Bridging the gap between neurotech and law - Law Society Journal
   

• Plaintiff M19A/2024 & Ors v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2024] HCATrans 45 (26 July 2024)

  “MS COSTELLO: Alternatively, given that Mr Hill, at least, and I are in Melbourne, and perhaps it is of judicial notice your Honour is Victorian, if we could appear in person in Melbourne that would be an alternative, your Honour.

  HER HONOUR: We will try. At the moment we have physical difficulties in Melbourne. I will not go into what those are, but they are physical difficulties.”
   

• Lawyer reprimanded, fined for leaving client files in shambles - Lawyers Weekly [paywall]
   

  • Council of the Law Society of New South Wales v Lee [2024] NSWCATOD 108 (25 July 2024)
     

• UK should stop arming Israel after ICJ advisory ruling, top lawyer says | Foreign policy | The Guardian
   

• Joe Biden unveils blueprint to overhaul US Supreme Court and presidential immunity, but chances of it succeeding are slim - ABC News
   

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