Barrister wins 150k in defamation case

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• Sydney barrister awarded $150k in defamation damages over story that falsely alleged she stole dog
   

  • Edwards v Nine Network Australia Pty Limited (No 5) [2024] FCA 422
     

  • Gina Edwards – Ground Floor Wentworth Chambers 
     

• X pushes back at order to hide Sydney church stabbing footage as US user reposts video | Australia news | The Guardian
   

  • Could Australia ban X (formerly Twitter) or is it untouchable? The worst-case scenario for Elon Musk - ABC News
     

  • Where to draw the line on freedom of speech [The Australian paywall]

    At the heart of the dispute between Elon Musk and Anthony Albanese is a key question for our society: do we want the federal government to be the global editor in chief of the internet?
     

• Activist groups not directly involved in Tiwi Island lawsuit must hand over documents to Santos, court rules | Law (Australia) | The Guardian
   

  • Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 4) [2024] FCA 414
     

• Man wrongly identified as Bondi Junction attacker by Seven settles defamation case with the network - ABC News
   

• Canberra detainee wins right to sue government for allegedly breaching his human rights while in solitary confinement - ABC News
   

• Bruce Lehrmann to pay Peter FitzSimons thousands in legal costs | Australia news | The Guardian
   

  • A copy of the orders can be found here
     

• Legal expert calls for potential Reynolds vs Higgins defamation trial to be live-streamed from WA court | The West Australian [The West Australian paywall]
   

• Woolworths fined $1.2 million for underpaying Victorian workers' long service leave - ABC News
   

• NSW Office of the Legal Services Commissioner accused of quashing sexual assault claim [AFR paywall]
   

• Danica Paige Szepanowski sentenced for public nuisance after Mama Africa face-stomp | The Courier Mail [Courier Mail paywall]

  A lawyer partying in the VIP section of a popular Qld nightclub repeatedly stomped on the face of another lawyer, before stepping back and laughing at her.
   

• Road not taken: the moment Andrew Giles passed on chance to shut down detention court case | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian 
   

  • Operation Zufolo: Australia deployed a ‘charade’ to sustain indefinite immigration detention – it failed | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian
     

Editor’s picks

• The International Association of Judges has issued a statement concerning the deepening crisis involving the suspension of Justice David Lambourne of the High Court of Kiribati, an Australian citizen, and the integrity of the Kiribati judicial system.
   

• The Genocide Convention and the ICJ: Further developments - YouTube - ANU College of Law - Associate Professor Melanie O’Brien, Professor Bill Campbell AO PSM QC, Professor Donald R. Rothwell, Associate Professor Imogen Saunders
   

• The great abdication kerfuffle - YouTube - Anne Twomey

  “This video (sparked by a media kerfuffle claiming the King was about to abdicate - which wasn't true) looks at the question of whether the abdication of a British monarch can occur without legislation. It discusses the precedents and in particular the legal and constitutional issues concerning the abdication of King Edward VIII and the effectiveness of his abdication in the Dominions. It explains why some of those issues wouldn't arise in relation to a (most unlikely) abdication of King Charles III and that the simpler procedure of an abdication on his own motion without ministerial advice or legislation would probably be sufficient.”
   

• Shocking Bruce Lehrmann ‘real victim survivor’ tattoo belongs to former WA cop | PerthNow
   

• Webinar - Artificial Intelligence and Legislative Power - Mon, Apr 29 2024, 1 - 2pm | Australian Association of Constitutional Law
   

International

• Harvey Weinstein has had a huge court victory, reversing a landmark #MeToo ruling. Here's why he won - ABC News
   

  • A copy of the decision can be found here - The People v. Harvey Weinstein
     

  • I Was Juror 11. We Gave Harvey Weinstein a Fair Trial | US News Opinion
     

• Britney Spears settles legal dispute with estranged father over conservatorship | Britney Spears | The Guardian
   

• Andrew Tate's trial on charges of rape and human trafficking can start, a Romanian court rules - ABC News
   

• Courts ‘should sit in pubs and libraries’ to bring justice to the people
   

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