After 16 minute adjournment HCA makes orders overturning Al-Kateb - 9 Nov 2023

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Daily wrap  

• Indefinite immigration detention ruled unlawful in landmark Australian high court decision | The Guardian

  • High Court ruling paves way to end indefinite detention for asylum seekers with nowhere to go

  • Copy of the transcript found here - which includes court adjourning at 4:17pm and then resuming at 4:33pm to pronounce orders “with which at least a majority agrees”.

• Kathleen Folbigg case referred for possible appeal after final conviction report released

  • The words that helped wrongly convict Kathleen Folbigg

  • A copy of the final report by The Hon Tom Bathurst AC KC can be found here - Report of the 2022 Inquiry into the convictions of Kathleen Megan Folbigg

• Calls to overhaul jury system to include First Nations people for 'fair, just' trials

• Jury delivers mixed verdicts to Melbourne brothers accused of terrorism over small bushfires

• Former lawyer Pat Lennon admits to methamphetamine use but says drugs planted by client

• Judge under family violence order ‘may finish decisions’ (Geason J TAS Supreme Court) [Paywall - the Australian]

Editor’s picks

• Sage v AYI23 [2023] FCA 1336

  • Man imprisoned for 7 months for contempt of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (failed to answer questions during private examination before ACIC).

• Nahata v Robertson (No 2) [2023] NSWSC 1297 - BarNet Jade - BarNet Jade

  • Peden J finds conduct of lawyer “improper and delinquent” and orders him to pay the indemnity costs ordered against his client.

• The Jims Group (most known for services such as Jim’s Mowing) is now expanding into legal services - Jim's Legal

• Second gripe about dancing orang-utan GIF reaches QIRC – Proctor

• VIC Silk Bows Ceremony 2023 - YouTube

• Defamation law challenges journalists' defence of the public interest - Law Society Journal

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