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• Women win right to sue Qatar Airways over strip searches before Sydney-bound flight - ABC News
   

  • DHI22 v Qatar Airways Group QCSC (No 1) [2025] FCAFC 91
     

  • DHI22 v Qatar Airways Group QCSC (No 2) [2025] FCAFC 92
     

• Australia warned it could face legal action over ‘wrongful’ fossil fuel actions after landmark climate ruling from world’s top court | Climate crisis | The Guardian
   

  • A climate 'reckoning' just unfolded at the International Court of Justice. What does it mean? - ABC News
     

• Albanese government worse than Morrison era at producing documents for public scrutiny, report finds | Freedom of information | The Guardian
   

  • FOI: Secrecy and Delay - The Centre for Public Integrity
     

  • Still Shrouded in Secrecy - The Centre for Public Integrity
     

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• Mental health crisis in state judiciary [The Australian paywall]

  The most senior legal authority in NSW has raised the alarm on behalf of an overburdened judiciary, saying poor resourcing and heavy caseloads are driving judges into early retirements | Watch the video
   

  • Statement on Judicial Wellbeing by Chief Justice of New South Wales
     

• Rowland defends corruption watchdog, flags privacy crackdown on AI [AFR paywall]

  The attorney-general has outlined two major areas she wants to focus on as Australia’s first law officer, while strongly backing the under-fire NACC commissioner.
   

• Kirk v Commonwealth of Australia [2025] FCA 838

  CATCHWORDS - ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – application for declaratory relief – applicant held office as senior member of Administrative Appeals Tribunal when appointed as deputy judge of Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber of United Kingdom – whether applicant was not entitled to be paid remuneration in respect of position as senior member by reason of s 7(12) of Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 (Cth) – whether applicant came to “hold[] a judicial office in the service of the Government of … a country other than Australia” upon appointment as deputy judge or at later date – whether applicant entered into service of United Kingdom Government upon appointment or at later date – application dismissed with costs
   

• Justice Julie Ward headlines Terrey Hills ‘CPD with a view’ - Law Society Journal
   

• French president and wife sue rightwing US commentator Candace Owens for defamation | Emmanuel Macron | The Guardian

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