HCA to hear two re-detention appeals

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• Australia’s high court to hear two appeals over legality of re-detaining more than 100 non-citizens | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian
   

• Ex-EY partner loses battle to suppress name [The Australian paywall]
   

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

• Samantha Murphy: Patrick Stephenson identified as alleged killer of Ballarat woman after suppression order lifted | Australia news | The Guardian
   

• ABC received complaints about Antoinette Lattouf on her first day on air, commission told
   

• Pilot sentenced for destroying evidence after chopper crash that killed Netflix star
   

• Suppression order lifted on historic abuse proceedings against prominent East Kimberley elder
   

• Canberra man pleads guilty to stealing Nick Kyrgios's Tesla at gunpoint
   

• Video - NSW to review every sexual assault case committed for trial  - ABC News
   

• Traditional owners' appeal against $3.6 billion Santos Narrabri Gas Project upheld by Federal Court - ABC News
   

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

• Family of alleged police tasering victim Clare Nowland resolves lawsuit against NSW - ABC News
   

• Prosecution of Aboriginal fishers under spotlight as class action launched against NSW government - ABC News
   

• AFL greats Kevin Sheedy and Terry Daniher named in Krakouer brothers' racism class action - ABC News
   

• Watchdog accuses police of ‘undermining’ public confidence
   

  • “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.”
     

Editor’s picks

• It will soon be negligent not to use AI, Master of the Rolls predicts - Legal Futures
   

• Is s 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act constitutionally valid? Part I - Anne Twomey - YouTube
   

• ASEAN-Australia summit: King & Wood Mallesons, Ashurst among top law firms eyeing big growth in South-East Asia strategy
   

• Legal CPD | A New System of Federal Administrative Review — Whitlam Institute
   

  • 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”.
     

• Final sitting of the Hon. Justice Carolyn Simpson AO on Tuesday, 12 March 2024
   

  • Livestream - Farewell sitting of Acting Justice Simpson - YouTube

     

• Gendered Interruptions Revisited Tickets, UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law - Fri 15/03/2024 at 1:00 pm | Eventbrite
   

  • “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.”
     

• The Walter Sofronoff–Janet Albrechtsen imbroglio | The Saturday Paper
   

• Zachary Rolfe and the Kumanjayi Walker inquest | The Saturday Paper
   

• Sally Dowling. Kerri Judd and Shane Drumgold, the chief prosecutors of NSW, Victoria and the ACT, are all under fire over how they run cases [AFR paywall]
   

• 'More work to be done' to create a more diverse and inclusive profession - Law Society Journal [LSJ paywall]
   

• Cost of using employed solicitors in proceedings - Law Society Journal [LSJ paywall]
   

• Latest Decisions of Interest - NSW Court of Appeal
   

• Library Bulletin | Law Library Victoria
   

• Victors’ justice? • Inside Story
   

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

• Shawn Campbell and 3 others (Appellants) v The King (Respondent) No 2 (Jamaica) - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
   

  • “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.”
     

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