Melbourne businessman found guilty on foreign interference charges

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Daily wrap  

• Ex-Liberal candidate found guilty of using donation to attempt to influence Morrison government for China | Victoria | The Guardian
   

• Convicted Melbourne terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika to be released from prison | Australia news | The Guardian
   

  • Medial Release - Decision in Attorney-General v Benbrika | Our ministers – Attorney-General’s portfolio

    “Mr Dutton’s failures in the handling of Mr Benbrika’s case have been repeatedly criticised, including by the Court. Just this morning, the Court noted that Mr Dutton engaged in a "serious breach" of the Criminal Code by withholding evidence from Mr Benbrika and the Court in 2020. After this failure was exposed in late 2022, Mr Benbrika sought a review of his Continuing Detention Order – making this case much more complicated than it needed to be.”
     

• Lip-reader tells Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial CCTV footage showed Brittany Higgins was being ‘plied with alcohol’ on night of alleged rape – as it happened | Australian media | The Guardian
   

  • Brittany Higgins said 'I don't want to' when Bruce Lehrmann told her to finish drink, lip-reader tells Federal Court
    

  • Coalition ministers ‘covering themselves’ by ordering Brittany Higgins incident be reported to police, court hears | Australia news | The Guardian
     

• Department warned Mark Dreyfus ending Collaery prosecution would fuel pressure to do same for David McBride | Mark Dreyfus | The Guardian
   

• Man sentenced for threats to kill Victorian federal MP Anne Webster | Crime - Australia | The Guardian
   

• Transport couple caught out by 'relatively unsophisticated' doctored invoices in cattle rustling case
   

• Daniel Duggan asks to be released from jail and detained at home as he fights extradition to US | Australia news | The Guardian
   

Editor’s picks

• Pay gap for women barristers grows, briefings hold steady: Law Council report [AFR paywall]
   

  • a copy of the report found here - Equitable Briefing Policy Annual Report 2022-23 Financial Year
     

• Permanent stays: High Court explains standard of appellate review and the relevance of loss of evidence in historical child abuse claims - Express Law No. 320 | AGS
   

• Al Muderis v Nine Network Australia Pty Limited [2023] FCA 1623

  • CATCHWORDS - EVIDENCE – where the applicant seeks to know the identity of 13 sources of information given to a journalist - where the respondents have refused to disclose their identities and claim statutory journalist privilege - where the applicant challenges the existence of the privilege and seeks to override the privilege under s 126K of the Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) – held: privilege established for all 13 sources; public interest in disclosing the 13 sources’ identities not demonstrated by the applicant to outweigh the public interest in not disclosing their identities; application dismissed; applicant to pay respondents’ costs.
     

• Issues are opportunities says LCA head – Proctor
   

• Tassie will raise minimum age of criminal responsibility – Proctor
   

• Groundswell of support for more courtrooms in Parramatta - Law Society Journal
   

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