High Court hands down 4 decisions

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• The High Court handed down 4 decisions yesterday. Judgment summaries linked below:
   

  • Attorney-General (Tas) v Casimaty [2024] HCA 31 (11 September 2024)
     

  • Director of Public Prosecutions v Smith [2024] HCA 32 (11 September 2024)
     

  • Morgan v McMillan Investment Holdings Pty Ltd [2024] HCA 33 (11 September 2024)
     

  • Chief Commissioner of Police v Crupi [2024] HCA 34 (11 September 2024)
      

• Sydney MP Alex Greenwich awarded $140,000 after suing former One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham over defamation - ABC News
   

  • Greenwich v Latham [2024] FCA 1050
     

• ‘I’ll send you the transcript’: emails and texts between head of Lehrmann inquiry and News Corp columnist revealed | Australian Capital Territory (ACT) | The Guardian
   

  • Documents available here - Online Court Files - ACT Supreme Court
     

  • Court documents detail communication between Bruce Lehrmann inquiry chair Walter Sofronoff and News Corp journalists - ABC News
     

• Hunter Valley bus driver jailed for at least 24 years over crash that killed 10 people | Hunter Valley bus crash | The Guardian
   

• Labor bill proposes up to seven years’ jail for doxing but drops promised new hate speech laws | Australian politics | The Guardian
   

• NSW Police officer pushes for judge-alone trial over nursing home taser death - ABC News
    

• Judge savages delays in lawsuit against Super Retail [The Australian paywall]

  A Federal Court judge has savaged lawyers for delaying a lawsuit brought against Super Retail and missing court timetables, describing the setbacks as ‘unacceptable’.
   

• Coroner criticises Queensland's voluntary assisted dying laws after man took his life with partner's medication - ABC News
   

• WA Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia corrects record after Children's Court president refutes comments on juvenile detention - ABC News
   

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• Want to see a photo of Sue Chrysanthou SC holding a string of sausages? Ok, here you go.
   

• Federal corruption watchdog looking into allegations against at least six parliamentarians | National Anti-Corruption Commission | The Guardian
   

  • Weekly update on the work of the Commission - 11 September 2024 | National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC)

    26 of the Commission’s 29 current corruption investigations were commenced during the 2023-24 reporting period and are still on foot.

    Of these:

    6 concern the conduct of current or former parliamentarians

    3 concern the conduct of current or former parliamentary staff

    7 concern the conduct of current or former senior executive officials

    8 concern the conduct of law enforcement officials

    4 concern the conduct of consultants or contractors

    8 relate to procurement

    1 relates to recruitment

    4 relate to corrupt conduct at the border

    3 relate to grants

    4 relate to misconduct in law enforcement.
     

• Nikolajuk v Commissioner of Police [2024] QDC 96 (15 July 2024)

  [14] 2. The decision-maker man acting as Magistrate Lance Randale involved an improper use of power and committed Treason by siting (sic) in Magistrate Court with wrong linage (sic) of Authority pretending that he is the Officer of the lawful Crown working for foreign governments and political subdivisions of AUSTRALIA, Registered Corporations Washington DC and held to Uniform Commercial Code of United States District of Columbia.

  The ground of appeal need only be stated to demonstrate that it is utter nonsense, and no further time of this Court will be spent in dealing with it.
   

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