Big win for TGA with $4.9m vaping civil penalty - 30 October 2023

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Daily wrap  

• Legal aid service chair denies auditing former CEO to 'damage' her amid wrongful dismissal trial
  

• $4.9m fine for online vaping product ads – Proctor

  • A copy of the judgment can be found here - Secretary, Department of Health and Aged Care v Vapor Kings Pty Ltd [2023] FCA 1297

• How Bruce Lehrmann’s media interviews cost him his anonymity in Toowoomba rape case | Law (Australia) | The Guardian

  • Bruce Lehrmann met Toowoomba woman at strip club before rape, police allege | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

  • Bruce Lehrmann rape charges heading back to court as timing of alleged offences revealed - ABC News

• Woman found guilty over woodchipper murder of ex-partner in Queensland | Australia news | The Guardian

• Melissa Caddick’s victims launch class action against super fund auditors

• Australian Catholic church’s insurer launches court bid to cover smaller share of abuse compensation | Catholicism | The Guardian

• Neo-Nazis walk free from court, spared further jail time over attack on Victorian hikers - ABC News

  • Offensive gesture outside court provides first test of Victoria's new ban of the Nazi salute - ABC News
    

• Man charged with WA cold case murder of Sharon Fulton, 37 years after her disappearance - ABC News
  

• Zak Grieve freed on parole after serving 12 years of life sentence for murder he didn't take part in - ABC News
  

• Jaeden Tito charged over alleged involvement in underworld hit at Keilor cafe in September - ABC News

• Change to NSW ODPP lawyer flex time arrangements - Application for Crown Employees (Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Flexible Working Hours) Award 2022 [2023] NSWIRComm 1106
  

• ICC Confirms Cyberattack Was Espionage | Silicon UK Tech News

• Israel Hamas attacks bring Australian Jewish barristers together over WhatsApp [AFR paywall]

Editor’s picks

• Lawyers warn against judge-only rape trials - The Australian [Paywall]

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