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Daily wrap
Quiet news day yesterday
Straight into it for Beech-Jones J with hearing of case seeking to reopen Al-Kateb - Australia asked six countries to resettle stateless Rohingya man after he began high court challenge, lawyer says | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian
Transcript of the first day of hearing found here - NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs & Anor [2023] HCATrans 153 (7 November 2023)
A copy of the judgment summary for Al-Kateb (from 2004) is found here for anyone not familiar with the case.
Editor’s picks
the start of the transcript includes an incredibly long list of judges, former judges and barristers in attendance (listed by name). See who you can spot in this video - New High Court chief justice formally acknowledges Indigenous Australians - ABC News
WA Lee Equity Lecture (Thursday, 2 November 2023) Chief Justice Helen Bowskill - The interaction of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customary law with some aspects of the law of equity – is the view any different through the lens of the Human Rights Act?
Three live streams on Federal Court’s Youtube channel today:
9:30am AEDT - case management hearing in ACCC v Qantas (Rolfe J)
10:15am AEDT - Victorian Senior Counsel appointments
10:15am AEDT - hearing in Pabai Pabai & Anor v Commonwealth of Australia (Wigney J)
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