
Daily wrap
First instance decision here - Palmer v Shipton [2025] FCA 273
Now-retired officers Jim O'Brien and Dale Flynn have been revealed as two of the four police officers involved in the Lawyer X scandal.
Landmark trans ruling ‘could rewrite the law’ [The Australian paywall]
A landmark judgment that stripped custody from a mother who wished to give her 12-year-old puberty blockers threatens to undo precedents allowing treatment for children without court intervention, a former Family Court judge says.
Editor’s picks
A Queensland man convicted of murder has failed to convince the High Court to strike out laws used to deny him parole for refusing to cooperate with authorities searching for one of his victims. And the fate of endangered forest glider possums could be a little safer following a court ruling that allows a community environmental group to prosecute the Forestry Corporation of New South Wales.
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