Justice Lee unhappy with Lisa Wilkinson's lawyers - 25 October 2023

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Daily wrap  

• Lisa Wilkinson and Network Ten take ‘cooperative approach’ to defence of Bruce Lehrmann defamation claim | The Guardian

• Ex-commando Heston Russell to receive $400,000 payout after being defamed by ABC | The Guardian

  • “[Justice] Lee said he would have made a different order to the one the broadcaster consented to after finding the former commando had given deliberately false evidence to the court.”

  • The costs decision can be found here - Russell v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (No 4) [2023] FCA 1279

• Susan Kiefel was the first woman in Australia's history to make it to the legal top - ABC News

• Federal Court hears case against Australia's largest Aboriginal legal aid service - ABC News

• FIFO lawyers help address shortage of domestic violence support services in regional WA - ABC News

• Extradition hearing for Australian accused of training Chinese pilots delayed for secret documents bid | The Guardian

• Melbourne council ditches Christian prayer after concern about potential human rights breaches | The Guardian
  

• NSW court allows health officials to give blood transfusion to Jehovah's Witness toddler - ABC News
  

• NSW police watchdog routinely denied access to internal officer interviews, report finds | The Guardian

• Live export Federal Court legal case: Retiring judge Steven Rares lashes class action - AFR [Paywall]
  

• Court sets date for Ben Aulich, Michael Papandrea contested committal hearing | The Canberra Times [Paywall]

• Victorian Bar members vote down ‘diversity clause’ - The Australian [Paywall]

Editor’s picks

• Amirbeaggi (Trustee), in the matter Billiau (Bankrupt) v Billiau [2023] FedCFamC2G 949

  • There is arguably nothing so informal, or possibly arrogant, as to approach a Court with orders which have been agreed amongst the parties and simply presume, or in the instant case direct, that they will be made (or to use the parlance of days’ past “rubber-stamped”: see Balakrishnan v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2023] FedCFamC2G 138 at [36]). The concluding use of “Kind regards” (see [3] above) or similar expressions, in correspondence with a Court, is also not appropriate, and falls foul of the obligation to avoid informality.
    

• Justice Gageler to deliver 2023 Sir Anthony Mason Lecture | Judicial College of Victoria

• Justice Stewart’s delivery of judgment in the Ruby Princess class action to be live streamed today (9:30am) - NSD806/2020 - SUSAN KARPIK v CARNIVAL PLC (ARBN 107 998 443 / ABN 23107998443) & ANOR - YouTube

• Thinking hard about lawyers, corporations and the environment - discussion with Prof Steven Vaughan (University College London) - YouTube - ANU College of Law

• Removing the watchdog’s bark: Crime and Corruption Commission v Carne — Australian Public Law

• A distinctive thinker who transformed Australian law - Financial Review article on Paul Finn [Paywall]

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