HCA to hear two re-detention appeals

a copy of the judgment here - [Redacted] v Commissioner of Taxation [2024] FCA 185

a copy of the judgment here - Gomeroi People v Santos NSW Pty Ltd and Santos NSW (Narrabri Gas) Pty Ltd [2024] FCAFC 26

“The NSW Police watchdog has accused the force of eroding the public’s confidence in its oversight of critical incident investigations by preventing it from viewing key documents relating to two deaths last year. The extraordinary stoush is set to have the agencies squaring off in the NSW Court of Appeal.”

Join the Commonwealth Attorney-General the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP, the Hon Justice Emilios Kyrou AO and the Hon Justice Lisa Hespe (President and Deputy President of the AAT), and two leading silks, Ruth Higgins SC and Tom Brennan SC, for this CPD on “A New System of Federal Administrative Review”.

Livestream - Farewell sitting of Acting Justice Simpson - YouTube

“In a pathbreaking study of the US Supreme Court, Professor Tonja Jacobi (Emory) found a startling pattern regarding interruptions of justices in the US Supreme Court: a pattern in which men interrupted women at far higher rates. In early, qualitative studies in Australia, Amelia Loughland found a similar pattern. The scope and strength of those patterns in Australia, however, remains open to debate.”

“A major new book revisits the moral and legal ambiguities of the Tokyo war crimes trial”

“During the trial, the judge became aware of an allegation that a juror had attempted to bride others by offering $500,000 JMD for a particular outcome. After investigating the allegation and considering it with counsel for both the prosecution and the defence, the judge decided that the trial should proceed.”