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• Linda Reynolds believed Lehrmann rape trial was politically motivated, psychologist tells defamation trial | Australian politics | The Guardian
   

  • Scott Morrison to take the stand in Brittany Higgins’ defamation trial | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
     

• Top barrister Ertunc Ozen SC allegedly hit and spat on wife [Daily Telegraph paywall]

  One of Sydney’s most prominent criminal barristers has been accused of repeatedly assaulting and verbally abusing his wife over several months. He denies the charges.
   

• War of the lilly pillies: Mosman neighbours don’t hedge bets in tree row [SMH paywall]

  Two north shore families called in silks to argue the finer points of law concerning an offending hedge - and whether the law should be applied in the present or past tense.
   

  • Unsworth v Hennessy - NSW Caselaw
     

• Melbourne lawyer obtained more than $250,000 from will he urged cognitively impaired 91-year-old to sign, tribunal finds | Victoria | The Guardian
   

•  Prosecutor slams couple's story of driving Amber Haigh to Sydney in closing arguments of Supreme Court trial - ABC News
   

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• 2023 Judicial Gender Statistics Report - Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration
   

  • See our Linkedin post here for a break down of the stats.
     

• Iveco S.P.A v The Ship Hoegh London [2024] FCA 901

  ADMIRALTY – application by shipowner for release of vessel under arrest – whether vessel should be released from arrest – where writ as to arrest impermissibly cited corporations as relevant persons and melded in rem and in personam claims – costs of application for release
   

• Council of the Law Society of New South Wales v Sideris (No 2) - NSW Caselaw

  [25] “…Some emails refer to the Law Society’s action itself (presumably, in commencing disciplinary proceedings in the Tribunal) being “stupidity”, “ridiculous” and “totally unnecessary”. Many of the emails in this context also use inappropriate language, some of which is extremely inappropriate in the context. In one email, the respondent writes “FUCK off the lot of you you bunch of idiots” (CM-3, p 31) and “Let me be a littler nicer – FUCK OFF” (Exh CM-1, p 287), where others state “Better still” or “So simply put” before attaching images of a middle finger (CM-1, pp 393, 395). The recipients of the discourteous, offensive or otherwise inappropriate correspondence includes employees of the Law Society (including in-house solicitors) and solicitors at Hicksons Lawyers.”
   

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