3 HCA judgments handed down

Daily wrap  

• Three High Court judgments handed down yesterday
   

  • Miller v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. Judgment summary here.
     

  • Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v Kola. Judgment summary here.
     

  • Director of Public Prosecutions v Benjamin Roder (a pseudonym). Judgment summary here.
     

• Lawyers tell High Court Iranian man facing deportation would rather be sent to Gaza than back to Iran - ABC News
   

• Sydney man Benjamin Cohen wrongly named as Bondi Junction killer by Channel Seven seeks damages | Bondi Junction stabbings | The Guardian
   

• Jeff Fenech unwittingly received packages containing drugs from alleged US trafficking group, court documents claim | Drugs trade | The Guardian
   

• Prominent defamation lawyer Sue Chrysanthou to represent Benjamin Cohen in Network Seven Bondi Junction stabbing misidentification  - ABC News
   

• Bruce Lehrmann trial: Federal Court judge Michael Lee demands transcript of Ten lawyer Justin Quill’s press conference [AFR paywall]

  Federal Court judge Michael Lee has demanded details of what a senior lawyer acting for Network Ten in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation matter said outside court criticising the blockbuster decision
   

• Ex-Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach drops new bomb on Seven Network | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

• Linda Reynolds says Lehrmann defamation judgement 'set record straight' on claims of cover-up - ABC News
   

• Deportation bill breaches rights and requires extensive amendment: Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights
   

• Assange's family in 'extreme distress' as US responds to UK court's extradition demands
    

Editor’s picks

• Top silk Ingmar Taylor to head new NSW Industrial Court, David Chin, SC, and Jane Paingakulam to be judges [AFR paywall]
   

• Barriers to justice remain, even in civil cases, following Lehrmann ruling - Law Society Journal
   

• Choose Bruce or me, lawyer told [The Australian paywall]

  Following an ultimatum from his partner, Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer Steven Whybrow SC is moving on from the saga but says his ‘great sadness’ was its potential to dissuade victims from pursuing justice.
   

• Legal GenAI Around the World: Asia - YouTube
   

• The Fourteenth Sir Harry Gibbs Memorial Oration, delivered by The Honourable James Edelman, Justice of the High Court of Australia
   

• Donald Trump told off for 'muttering' as first jurors selected in hush money criminal trial - ABC News
   

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