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• Former Liberal candidate jailed over attempt to influence Morrison government for China | Crime - Australia | The Guardian
   

• Rolfe didn't disclose medication and potential side effects before shooting, coroner hears
  

  • Senior NT police deny Zachary Rolfe’s claim unit held racist mock award, inquest hears | Northern Territory | The Guardian
     

• Collapsed funeral fund misrepresented itself as Aboriginal owned or managed, court finds | Australia news | The Guardian
   

  • a copy of the judgement of Murphy, O’Bryan and Shariff JJ can be found here - Australian Securities and Investments Commission v ACBF Funeral Plans Pty Ltd [2024] FCAFC 19
     

• Appeal dropped in first junior doctors class action to go to trial [paywall]
   

  • background to the appeal here - Peninsula Health appeals Federal Court decision ruling it breached Fair Work Act by underpaying its junior doctors | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
     

• Construction union wins in court, ACCC to pay costs [The Australian paywall]

  “The ACCC must pay the legal costs of the CFMEU and subcontractor Hutchinson after a Federal Court overturned a $1.3m penalty and a finding they had breached competition law.”
   

  • a copy of the judgment of Wigney, Bromwich and Anderson JJ can be found here - J Hutchinson Pty Ltd v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [2024] FCAFC 18
     

Editor’s picks

• How to get a job at a law firm like Allens and Herbert Smith Freehills [AFR paywall]
   

• 11 Parody Ads For All The Dogs Seeking Attorney Services By Kensington Campbell | Bored Panda
   

• Judges Issue Guidance on Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Court Filings in the Wake of Attorneys Citing to Nonexistent Cases Created by ChatGPT - Lexology [US]
   

• Why Corrs CEO Gavin MacLaren has a target on his back [AFR paywall]

   

• Speeches by the late Hon. Andrew Rogers AO KC have been uploaded to the NSWSC website here.
   

• Courts are ‘gagging debate and scrutiny’ [The Australian paywall]

  Victoria is easily the suppression order ‘capital’ of Australia as judges and magistrates ignore demands to open up the secret state.
   

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