Clive Palmer appeals failed case against former ASIC chair

Daily wrap  

• Clive Palmer files appeal in failed suits against ex-ASIC chair James Shipton - Lawyerly [paywall]
   

  • First instance decision here - Palmer v Shipton [2025] FCA 273
     

• Former cops involved in 'criminal' Mokbel investigation are named

  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.
   

• Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell rebuked in court for video link appearance - ABC News
   

• Suspended Townsville mayor Troy Thompson seeking $1m in discrimination claim - ABC News
   

• 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

• High Court upholds Queensland's "no body, no parole" laws; Endangered glider possums in court - Law Report - Apple Podcasts

  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.
   

• Lawyers could be 'Trumped' at border - Practitioners headed to the US need to take extra precautions – Proctor
   

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