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• Landmark report calls for removal of LGBTQ+ discrimination exemptions for Australia’s religious schools | Law (Australia) | The Guardian
   

  • a copy of the ALRC report can be found here - Maximising the Realisation of Human Rights: Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws (ALRC Report 142) | ALRC. The Hon Justice Mordecai Bromberg is the president of the ALRC.
     

• Despite parents' wishes, NSW court orders life-saving cancer treatment to teenager with severe disabilities
   

  • a copy of Elkaim AJs judgment can be found here - H v OL - NSW Caselaw
     

• Clare O’Neil claims she relied on verbal briefings only for prediction of high court immigration detention win | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian
   

• ‘Controlling’ man tricked wife into leaving Australia in order to have her visa cancelled, court told | Victoria | The Guardian
   

• Landmark administrative review reforms pass the House | Our ministers – Attorney-General’s portfolio
   

• New ACT Director of Public Prosecutions | ACT Greens
   

  • Victoria Engel SC Murray Chambers | Northern Territory
     

• Labor, Greens shoot down inquiry into ‘#MeToo’ DPP [The Australian paywall]

  NSW Labor and the Greens have voted down an inquiry into the office of chief prosecutor Sally Dowling, despite five judges launching public attacks on her ­office for bringing baseless sexual assault proceedings to trial.
   

• Helga Lam case: NSW DPP apologises for ‘willing participants’ comment [SMH paywall]

  “A group of boys was described by a prosecutor as “willing participants” in their own alleged abuse by a female teacher”

Editor’s picks

• Music by Justice David Hammerschlag (Chief Judge in Equity NSWSC) can be found here or by searching David Hammerschlag on Spotify.
   

  • Here is it noted that the song “Sixteen at the Movies” was written while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
     

  • Justice Hammerschlag: The Busking Judge
     

• Law Society warns youth bail reforms are ‘unprecedented’ - Law Society Journal
   

• Rex Patrick v Attorney-General (Cth) [2024] FCA 268 (appeal allowed)
   

• William & Lonsdale - Lives in the Law: The Hon Linda Dessau AC CVO on Apple Podcasts
   

• The Cambridge Law Corpus: A Dataset for Legal AI Research
   

• Think Foley's: Recent Cases in the Court of Appeal 2024 (VIC) on Apple Podcasts
   

• Young & Young v Attorney General of New South Wales - NSW Caselaw
   

  • Kunc J at [1] “The plaintiffs wish to give legal effect to their objection to being part of civil society under the rule of Australian law. If there is a way by which that can be done, they have not found it.”
     

• Why strict non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases shouldn't be the only option - ABC News
   

• US pursuing Julian Assange with 'as much determination as ever', despite report of plea deal, says lawyer - ABC News
   

• US accuses Apple of monopolizing smartphone market in sweeping lawsuit | Apple | The Guardian
   

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