Complaint against Judge Chettle upheld

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• Judicial Commission of Victoria - Statement in relation to Judge Chettle - 6 May 2024

  “The Commission found, overall, that the Officer’s conduct infringed the standards of conduct generally expected of judicial officers…”
   

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• David McBride's lawyers urge ACT Supreme Court to find his motivation to share classified documents was honourable - ABC News
   

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• Landmark Family Law Act reforms come into effect | Our ministers – Attorney-General’s portfolio
   

  • What are Australia’s family law reforms, and how will they help women and children fleeing violence? | Zoe Rathus for the Conversation | The Guardian
     

• South Australian barristers in new row with Attorney-General Kyam Maher over official plans to scrap royal title Kings Counsel
   

• Linda Reynolds fresh legal move on Brittany Higgins $2.4 million payout | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

• Central Coast Mariners player Angel Torres in court charged with aggravated sexual assault - ABC News
   

• NT urged to strengthen 'ancient' gun laws amid federal funding for national firearms register - ABC News
   

• AI porn spreaders face six years jail time under new Australian laws | Herald Sun
   

• Qantas agrees to $20m payments to customers and, subject to court approval, a $100m penalty for misleading consumers | ACCC
   

• Synergy360 boss drops defamation case against Nine – as it happened | Australia news | The Guardian
   

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  • Tasmanian Water And Sewerage Corporation T/A Taswater v Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (128V) - [2024] FWC 786 | Fair Work Commission
     

• Costs in Lehrmann matter to be referred to referee - Law Society Journal
   

• OMNISHAMBLES - Justice Michael Lee - Mug | TeePublic
   

• Today’s FCA livestreams include (available here):
   

  • A case management hearing in Minnie McDonald v Cth before Mortimer CJ from 10:15am AEST (a class action on behalf of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who worked in the Northern Territory whose wages were allegedly unjustly withheld or not paid as a result of wage control legislation in effect from 1933 to 1971).
     

  • A hearing in Al Muderis v Nine Network before Abraham J from 10:15am AEST.
     

• Regional lawyer who slept in office says she was forced to quit - Lawyers Weekly
   

  • Yolande Victoria Frances Dubow v East Coast Law Pty Ltd - [2024] FWC 1140 | Fair Work Commission

     

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