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• Shane Drumgold: Former ACT chief prosecutor’s fight with board of inquiry, ACT government over Bruce Lehrmann prosecution findings gets underway | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

  • hearings begin today before Acting Justice Stephen Kaye. An online file for the matter can be found here.
     

• Ben Roberts-Smith: ‘hard to understand’ how Afghan man died other than by unlawful execution, judge says | Ben Roberts-Smith | The Guardian
   

• Seven of the immigration detainees released in Australia were convicted of murder or attempted murder | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian
   

• Antoinette Lattouf lawyer calls for ABC to hand over any communications with the Australian | Australia news | The Guardian
   

• Keeping Childrens Court matters out of the media allows youth an 'opportunity to make a mistake', lawyer says
   

• Former lawyer Pat Lennon charged [Herald Sun paywall]
   

  • “The former high-flyer will face court over an alleged attempt to break into a South Yarra home that was caught on CCTV.”
     

• ‘Reputation at risk’: Albanese government’s corruption watchdog pick (Justice Stephen Rothman - NSWSC) pulled over party links [SMH paywall]
   

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• HWL Ebsworth Lawyers v Persons Unknown - NSW Caselaw
   

  • Default judgment entered against the defendants described as unknown persons including orders for injunctive relief to restrain the defendants from dealing with the plaintiffs’ confidential information.
    

  • [14] “In conformity with the Court’s interlocutory directions for service, on 12 June 2023, HWLE sent the interlocutory orders made by in Hammerschlag CJ in Eq to the defendants at the email address that they had used to communicate the demands and at the forum on the dark web that the defendants had used to make their threats. HWLE sent further information, including the orders and affidavits in the proceedings, to the threat actors on 15 June 2023.

  • [15] Some of the threat actors received this information. On 17 June 2023, HWLE received an emailed response from the email address at which HWLE had served the documents under the Court’s directions. The Court infers from the terse three worded message, “fuck you faggot”, in the response, that some of the threat actors were displeased that HWLE had taken legal proceedings rather than paying the ransom. By 27 June 2023 the sample cache of HWLE data could no longer be found at the dark web forum where it had previously been identified.”
     

• 2024 as the year of international climate litigation - University of Melbourne
   

• 'Doxxing' could be criminalised after hundreds of Jewish Australians names and messages published
   

• Digital statutory declarations now available in myGov | Our ministers – Attorney-General’s portfolio
   

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