FCA publishes documents in Linda Reynolds matter

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• Linda Reynolds claims she was obliged to sue Brittany Higgins | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

  • Online file - Linda Reynolds v Commonwealth of Australia
     

• High Court to decide if information gathered on encrypted messaging app AN0M was legally obtained - ABC News
   

• NSW Police ‘failed’ to comply with statutory protections during strip searches: court | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

• Legal Aid NT chair resigns amid backlash over government's 'captain's pick' for new director - ABC News
   

• Victorian government commits $727m in state budget for more prison beds after bail reform - ABC News
   

• Teen charged with machete robbery denied bail as tough new NT bail laws kick in - ABC News
   

• Russia responsible for downing of Flight MH17 | Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
   

• Distinguishing between edible and poisonous fungi is difficult, mushroom expert tells Erin Patterson trial | Victoria | The Guardian
   

• Some witness statements ‘blatantly contradictory’ to Alan Jones sexual assault allegations, court hears | Alan Jones | The Guardian
   

• Mass murder at Bondi Junction likely due to Joel Cauchi’s ‘sexual frustration and hatred towards women’, inquest told | Bondi Junction stabbings | The Guardian
   

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• 2025 Seabrook Chambers Public Lecture - The Hon Justice Lincoln Crowley YouTube

  Courting danger: Threats to judicial independence, authority and the administration of justice in Australia Australians rely on, and trust in, the impartiality and independence of our judiciary system. But we should not take this for granted. Across the world, new threats to judicial independence are emerging. Ever-evolving technology, social media, fake news, artificial intelligence and resurgent political populism are posing new challenges. Public confidence in Australia’s judiciary is high but this confidence needs protecting. Our faith in the courts and judicial system remain essential for the administration of justice and the rule of law. Australia is not immune to judicial controversies weakening public trust across our other democratic societies. In this lecture, the Honourable Justice Lincoln Crowley of the Supreme Court of Queensland will break down the challenges facing judiciary independence and the administration of justice in Australia, and what can be done to counter these threats.
   

• Today HCA to publish reasons in Clive Palmer’s unsuccessful challenge to Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 - HCA Daily List
   

• Queensland reviews strangulation offence - Law Report - Apple Podcasts

  In 2016, Queensland was the first Australian jurisdiction create a stand-alone offence of non-fatal strangulation. Since then, every other state and territory has followed its lead - most recently Victoria. Almost a decade on, the Queensland Law Reform Commission is conducting an inquiry into the offence
   

• Robo-love: when affection for an artificially created ‘companion’ goes wrong - Justice with Jon Faine - Apple Podcasts

  A 14-year-old boy in the US recently took his own life after an AIchatbot ‘companion’ he created repeatedly entreated him to ‘please come home tome’. What, if anything, can the law do about the dark side of these new computer-based ‘friends’? Australia's leading AI law expert, Professor Jeannie Paterson of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics, explains.
   

• Adult punishment for children is a shameful social failure - Law Council of Australia
   

• What is the new abortion bill in NSW – and why is Tony Abbott trying to stop it? | Health | The Guardian

   

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