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• Supreme Court judge takes the witness stand in assault case against him - ABC News
   

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    Justice Gregory Geason has denied being a controlling, jealous partner, telling a court his fiance-turned-accuser ‘had a thing’ about him potentially being unfaithful and often initiated lunchbreak sex.

     

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  “The Australian Government has appointed 6 new non-judicial Deputy Presidents to the AAT, in addition to the two previously announced on 21 June 2024” (Ms Simone Burford, Ms Kruna Dordevic, Ms Gina Lazanas, Ms Kathryn McMillan KC, Mr Damien O’Donovan, Ms Clare Thompson SC)
   

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• Australian Securities and Investments Commission v American Express Australia Limited [2024] FCA 784

  [54] …This submission was developed at some length in the parties’ initial joint written submissions, but oddly the parties did not then provide any reasons or submissions as to why their argument may be wrong. Given that there was no contradictor in the case, this was a dereliction of the duties of counsel to the Court, as senior counsel for both parties ultimately accepted (T26.16–33, 39.17–40.6). Quite apart from the duties of counsel to the Court, barristers owe it to themselves in all proceedings (irrespective of whether there is a contradictor) to consider the opposing point of view, if only to spare themselves and the Court from the kind of insubstantial arguments that rise like bubbles to the surface and disappear.

  [57] …When I told senior counsel for ASIC that the point was far too subtle for my mind, and requested some elaboration, senior counsel replied that there was nothing further she could say beyond what had been put in writing (1.7.24 at T9.40–10.8). That may be so, but if a submission is to be put then counsel should be in a position to explain it, or at least to give it some paraphrasable meaning…

  [64] …It was at this point (if not earlier) that the parties’ submissions completely lost contact with any form of rationality…
   

• Star Erections Pty Ltd v Southern Cross Medical and Surgical Pty Ltd [2001] NSWSC 961 (17 October 2001)

  [1] This is a mess. That is the best way of describing what is before the Court in a neutral, accurate way.
   

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• Ryan v Cheqrouni (No 2) - ACT Supreme Court

  [2] The plaintiffs were self-represented. They did not wish to make any submissions on the law. It would not be an understatement to summarise their approach to any legal issues as: “we have no idea”.
   

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• REYNOLDS -v- HIGGINS [2024] WASC 260 (18 July 2024) 
   

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