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• AFP officers launch defamation case against ACT after complaint over Bruce Lehrmann’s criminal trial | Australian federal police | The Guardian
   

• Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi's racial discrimination trial against One Nation's Pauline Hanson begins - ABC News 
   

• National Legal Aid calls for $300m funding increase to keep Australian women safe | Australia news | The Guardian
   

• Former immigration detainee released after High Court decision among those arrested over violent Girrawheen home invasion - ABC News
   

• Final Arguments Heard in Australian Climate Justice Case | Mirage News
   

  • ‘My country would disappear’: climate crisis could force Torres Strait Islanders from homes within 30 years | Torres Strait Islands | The Guardian

    Large parts of islands could be uninhabitable by 2050, federal court told in first climate class action taken by Australian First Nations people
     

  • The online court file for the matter can be found here - Pabai Pabai & Anor v Commwealth of Australia: Online File
     

• Super Retail legal action expands to at least four staff [AFR paywall]

  Lawyers acting for employees say they offered to settle confidentially for less than a third of the $30 million to $50 million sought.
   

• Police visited Megan’s home 153 times in less than two years. Now she is fighting back [SMH paywall]
   

  • Mothers sue police over months of disruptive and intimidating home visits | Public Interest Advocacy Centre
     

• Monica Smit: Reignite Democracy Australia director’s legal defence fundraiser court fight | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

Editor’s picks

• "Truth Decay and its implications for the judiciary: an Australian perspective" - The Hon Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of NSW - 4th Judicial Roundtable, Durham University
   

• A federal Human Rights Act: Turning over a new leaf on climate litigation? — Australian Public Law
   

• Climate litigation becoming 'a modern trend' - Law Society Journal
   

• Migration Bill creates ‘criminal’ offence for non-citizens - Law Society Journal
   

• Commens t/as Subsonic Music v Certain Lloyd's Underwriters subscribing to Policy No ALTCNX1900332 (Trial Judgment) [2024] FCA 434

  INSURANCE - separate questions on liability - where insured's music festival cancelled - whether cancellation was necessary and sole and direct result of cause not otherwise excluded - where insured suggested cancellation was because of bushfires - where no objective inability to commence festival - where real reason for cancellation was onerous and late imposition of conditions by council - insurer not liable
   

• Court therapy dogs: Lucy the labrador changing the lives of victims of crime [SMH paywall]
   

• Why lawyers use hard-to-understand language | Edward Gibson and Lex Fridman - YouTube
   

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