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Daily wrap  

• Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions for killing her four children quashed by NSW court | Kathleen Folbigg | The Guardian
   

  • Kathleen Folbigg should receive biggest compensation payout in Australian history, legal experts say | New South Wales | The Guardian 
     

  • a copy of the judgment and summary found here - Folbigg v R - NSW Caselaw
     

• Lisa Wilkinson rejects idea she put ‘pride and ego’ before Bruce Lehrmann’s right to a fair trial | Australian media | The Guardian
   

  •  Lisa Wilkinson says she's not a 'cheap, tabloid journalist' as she defends airing Brittany Higgins interview
     

• Court expected to rule next week to release convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika from prison | Australia news | The Guardian
   

• Court rejects tomato-tin ecstasy importer's appeal to have conviction overturned (Lawyer X scandal) 
   

  • a copy of the judgment can be found here - Karam v The King [2023] VSCA 318 (14 December 2023)
     

• Acquittal of 10-year-old boy charged with trying to ram police car in stolen vehicle sparks frustration
   

• Greenpeace accuses Woodside of 'burying the truth' on climate action, takes company to court
   

Editor’s picks

• Anne Twomey’s submission on misinformation bill
   

  • “This exposure draft Bill is at best half-baked. While one can sympathise with its aim, it is hard to believe that anyone has seriously thought through how it would operate in practice and the likely consequences. It also raises a significant risk that the ‘cure’ is worse than the disease – i.e. that the damage to the democratic system of government and Australians generally arising from the restrictions on free speech on digital platforms may be greater than the damage caused by misinformation and disinformation. If it is to proceed, it needs a lot more work to make it acceptable”
     

  • a copy of the exposure draft found here - Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023
     

• Unraveling Robodebt: Legal Failures, Impact on Vulnerable Communities, and Future Reforms - The University of Sydney - Professor Emeritus Terry Carney
   

• Financial incentives to bring lawyers to the bush - Law Council of Australia
   

• Express Law No. 319 | AGS - High Court finds in favour of broad extraterritorial operation of unfair contract terms regime in the Australian Consumer Law
   

• In support of a statutory duty of care to mitigate the impact of climate change – a tripartite argument — Australian Public Law - Marco Rizzi, Fiona McGaughey and Alex Gardner
   

• QLD Bar Association - Hearsay Dec 2023
   

•  Council of the Law Society of New South Wales v Buckley - NSW Caselaw
   

  • The Respondent [a lawyer] posted the comment referred to at paragraph 45.d above:

    “... my point was you want to get somewhere in the legal world you have to give up everything that you ever believed in and wanted when you set out on your journey to be a lawyer. It’s all bullshit. Unless you are in a position of power, you’re not getting anywhere, if you want to be a controlled muppet. Then you’ll go far. If you want to represent people on your own, you'll get nowhere. /As soon as you take on the establishment, the Law Society will be all over your arse like a wet dildo."

     

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