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• Clive Palmer’s lawyer ‘misplaced’ $2.5m in gold bullion, court told [SMH paywall]

  Sam Iskander, who is accused of stealing $30 million from the mining magnate, gave the gold to someone for “safekeeping”, but doesn’t know where it is, a court has heard.
   

• Bruce Lehrmann seeks full forensic copy of Toowoomba rape accuser's phone - ABC News
   

• Cattle breeder awarded $52m after successful appeal against mine owner - ABC News
   

  • Balanced Property Pty Ltd & Anor v Pembroke Olive Downs Pty Ltd; Pembroke Olive Downs Pty Ltd v Balanced Property Pty Ltd & Anor [2025] QLAC 3 (9 September 2025)
     

• Mark Latham accused of denigrating ex-partner online after abuse allegations in court filing | Mark Latham | The Guardian
   

• Paedophile argues relevance of girl's 'sexual experience' in appeal bid


  A man who sexually abused a young girl in foster care is seeking to quash his conviction in the High Court.

   

• Developer cam exit cladding class action to bring $15M case against Halifax | Lawyerly [paywall]
   

  • The Owners – Strata Plan 872321 v 3A Composites GmbH (No 9) [2025] FCA 1108
     

• High Court to decide on trademark dispute between singer Katy Perry and Sydney designer Katie Perry - ABC News
   

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Editor’s picks

• Epic Games, Inc v Apple Inc [2025] FCA 900 (Beach J’s 12 Aug 2025 judgment now made published online - 6347 paragraphs, 350,000 words)
   

• How a lawyer, accountant and 10 others are using AI at work [AFR paywall]

  Everyone is using AI, from chartered accountants to chemistry professors, celebrity chefs, vice-chancellors, dentists, teachers and real estate agents.
   

• Victorian Legal Services Board v Kuksal (Sequestration Order) [2025] FCA 999

  [171] The next complaint in the written submissions refers to “the ChatGPT produced profile of Justice Downes referred to above”…

  …

  [173] There is then another peculiar section containing submissions about my psychological profile. This section is so ridiculous that it does not deserve a substantive response.

  [174] The final complaint in the written submissions concerns correspondence received from YouTube in which YouTube notified Mr Kuksal that it had blocked videos about me that he had uploaded to YouTube from audiences in Australia. It is unclear what or how the actions of YouTube could impact upon an application for recusal or why that event supports such a recusal. The videos were taken down at the request of the Australian government.
   

• Strengthening legal services: New resources for PNG’s Office of the Solicitor General | Our ministers – Attorney-General’s portfolio

  “During the meeting, Attorney-General Rowland formally presented new IT equipment to the Office of the Solicitor General to help modernise legal practice and strengthen service delivery.”
   

• Today’s FCA livestream - QUD126/2017 & QUD91/2022 & QUD92/2022 Quandamooka Coast Combined Proceeding - YouTube
   

• Ms Chantelle Tamati v MQT Pty Ltd [2025] FWC 2607 (4 September 2025)

  Catchwords: Application for an unfair dismissal remedy – dismissed for refusing drug and alcohol breath test – reasons for request for test not clearly stated – direction to undertake a test is not reasonable where reason not made clear – sanction for refusing test not stated in drug and alcohol policy – failure to provide written allegation prior to termination meeting – summary dismissal not justified - dismissal unfair – compensation ordered
   

• Call for ban on sexual relations between barristers and junior staff | Sexual harassment | The Guardian (UK)
   

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