Interstate judge to hear Drumgold claim (22 September 2023)

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Daily wrap

• Justice Stephen Kaye (VSCA until last year) to be appointed as Acting Judge of ACT Supreme Court to hear Drumgold claim against Board of Inquiry

  • Walter Sofronoff (Chair of the Board) appears to be represented by Glen Cranny of Queensland criminal and employment firm Gilshenan & Luton - see Amended Originating Application filed on behalf of Drumgold found here.

• HWL Ebsworth hack: 65 Australian government agencies affected by cyber-attack - announcement by National cybersecurity coordinator Air Marshal Darren Goldie 

• Constitutional lawyer Greg Craven answers audience questions about the Voice

• Labor urged to include news outlets in social media crackdown bill to curb ‘dangerous’ misinformation

• Clive Palmer given 7 days to file notice of appeal in referendum case. Judgement of Rares J has been published on the FCA website but requires login.

• High Court updates:

  • 10 October 2023 hearings before the Full Court

  • 13 October 2023 special leave applications

  • 16 October 2023 Ceremonial Sitting for retirement of Kiefel CJ

  • 20 October 2023 special leave applications
    

• ‘The work that I do is honourable’: Surgeon hits out at media in defamation case. Live stream of the case continues tomorrow on the Federal Court’s Youtube channel.

• Commonwealth Government Covid-19 Response Inquiry terms of reference

• Australian politicians push for the release of Julian Assange in Washington DC

• Google facing negligence lawsuit after man died following Maps directions off a collapsed bridge (US)

Editor’s picks

• Guides on cross examination:

  • How to Cross-Examine a Witness in an Australian Court - Stephen Owen-Conway QC

  • The Bar Association of Queensland - Cross Examination Basics

  • Cross Examining Expert Witnesses - David Jones KC and Liam McAuliffe - 16 June 2023
    

• NSW Joint Law Courts Building remains closed until Friday 29 September 2023 due to flooding issue.

• Express Law No. 318 | AGS - High Court rejects application of parliamentary privilege to a report prepared by a statutory agency for its supervisory parliamentary committee
  

• 5 Appointments to the Defence Force Discipline Appeals Tribunal
  

• UNSW Law Journal Issue 46(3) Launch Tickets, Thu 19/10/2023 at 6:00 pm. With Keynote by Justice Matthew Myers - the first Aboriginal Australian to have been appointed as a federal court judge according to his Wikipedia.

• 2023 Australian Bar Association Conference Program - (21/22 Sept 2023).

Video of Rangiah J consent determination of native title in Florence Bell & Ors on behalf of the Wakka Wakka People #4 & State of Queensland & Ors 

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