High Court overrules 1974 decision - 19 Oct 2023

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Daily wrap

• High court strikes down Victoria’s electric vehicle tax in ruling that could threaten other state levies | Electric vehicles | The Guardian

  • Judgment summary found here.

• Announcement of 25 Senior Counsel for Victoria 2023 | The Supreme Court of Victoria

• Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff cleared by DPP over former Attorney General’s allegations of intimidation - ABC News

• Australian businessman being used as ‘guinea pig’ for reckless foreign interference charge, lawyers say | Australia news | The Guardian
  

• Kumanjayi Walker inquest postponed again, after Zachary Rolfe asks NT coroner to consider recusal - ABC News
  

• Inquest seeking answers over death of couple who sons say 'wanted to die together'

Editor’s picks

• An easy leap: Legal education opens doors to careers outside the law - Law Society Journal

• 2023 John Emerson Oration - 29 November 2023 - the Hon Justice Mark Leeming: ‘Statutory Eucalypts in the Law of Charity’ (the address will focus on the often hidden interaction between statute law and equity as it relates to the law of charity).
  

• Open Justice, Closed Courts and the Constitution: Australian and Comparative Perspectives - Kieran Pender | The University of Queensland Law Journal

• Farewell Ceremony for the Hon. Justice Robert Beech-Jones - YouTube (from 9:15am today)

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