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• Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial: Channel Seven offered Taylor Auerbach promotion after rebuking him for charging Thai massages to corporate card, court told | Australian media | The Guardian
   

  • Former Seven producer Taylor Auerbach to give second day of evidence in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case - ABC News
     

• Court told Brittany Higgins colluded with Lisa Wilkinson to ‘attack’ Linda Reynolds, as defamation case heads for trial | Australian politics | The Guardian
   

• NSW MP Gareth Ward successful in delaying start of sexual assault trial - ABC News
   

• Daniel Duggan loses bid to delay US extradition case as judge questions his legal spending | Australia news | The Guardian
   

• Peter John Wetzler to seek costs from Victoria Police after cold case murder charge dropped - ABC News
   

Editor’s picks

• Seven Random Points About Judging - The Hon Justice Beech-Jones
   

• Australian justice and courts system: Should judges still be investigated after they leave the bench? [AFR paywall]
   

  • Article discusses controversies involving Magistrate Burns, Judge Maiden and Judge Harman - see some relevant links below:
     

    • Judicial Commission of NSW Conduct Division - Magistrate Dominique Burns
       

    • Judicial Commission of NSW Conduct Division -Judge Peter Maiden
       

    • NSW Federal Circuit Court judge resigns over 'inappropriate' behaviour towards women - ABC News
       

• Finally, after a long blockage, it's now legal in WA to take a plunger to a toilet or change a showerhead
   

• Legal luminaries gather for twin milestones of NSW Supreme Court bicentenary year - Law Society Journal
   

  • Video of the book launch found here - Constant Guardian : Changing Times – The Supreme Court of New South Wales 1824 – 2024 - NSWSC - Youtube
     

• Bluth v Boyded Industries Pty Ltd - NSW Caselaw

  The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal from a decision of the Supreme Court that ordered HWL Ebsworth to compensate Boyded Industries Pty Ltd for negligently failing to provide legal advice that caused Boyded to lose the opportunity to exercise a right pursuant to a deed of call option. The primary judge held that Gateway, to which Boyded had sold three parcels of land, had an ability to pay Boyded at the time when they would have exercised the right. The Court held that the primary judge erred in that conclusion on the basis that the evidence provided by Boyded ostensibly proving Gateway’s ability to pay rose no higher than speculation or surmise.
   

• Do parolees really ‘walk free’? Busting common myths about parole
   

• I asked ChatGPT to write some laws — this is what happened [paywall]

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