Doli incapax review announced

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• NSW to review law that presumes children under 14 are incapable of evil | Australia news | The Guardian
   

  • Review of doli incapax for young offenders under 14 | NSW Government

    Attorney General Michael Daley has appointed State Parole Authority Chair and former Supreme Court Justice, the Honourable Geoffrey Bellew SC, and former NSW Police Deputy Commissioner, Mr Jeffrey Loy, to review the operation of doli incapax in NSW.
     

• Gangland lawyer Sarah Tricarico has practising certificate suspension quashed [The Age paywall]
   

  • Tricarico v Victorian Legal Services Board (No 2) [2025] VSC 242 (7 May 2025)
     

• Mary Kostakidis’ lawyers will ask court to throw out antisemitism complaint by Zionist federation | Australian media | The Guardian
   

• Court greenlights trial of pianist’s discrimination claim after Melbourne orchestra cancelled concert | Australia news | The Guardian
   

  • Gillham v Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 458
     

• ‘Pets enjoy greater legal protection than children’: push for smacking kids to be a crime [The Australian paywall]

  Smacking children should be against the law because it is akin to beating wives and slaves, more than 100 health and welfare ­experts have told the nation’s first review of ‘domestic discipline’ laws.
   

• Court hears Erin Patterson's daughter recount days around mushroom lunch that killed three - ABC News
   

• Strike-off recommended for lawyer who sent false emails to himself - Lawyers Weekly [paywall]
   

  • Legal Services and Complaints Committee and Frost - Statement of Agreed Facts
     

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