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• Sacked Melbourne lawyer who chucked sickie to go to the AFL loses bid to get his job back | Industrial relations | The Guardian
   

  • Mitchell Fuller v Madison Branson Lawyers Pty Ltd [2025] FWC 784 (7 April 2025)
     

• Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell asks court to remove 'radical' bail condition so he can start a political party - ABC News
   

• Judgment summary for decision handed down by the High Court Yesterday - Plaintiff M19A/2024 & Ors v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2025] HCA 17
   

• Judge lashes child gender-medicine experts [The Australian paywall]

  One of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a mother who wished to prescribe her child puberty blockers.
   

  • Re: Devin [2025] FedCFamC1F 211 (3 April 2025)
     

• Saridas sues Harmers for failing to recognise her as a whistleblower [The Australian paywall]

  Oil and gas executive Ayten Saridas is suing Harmers Workplace Lawyers, alleging the firm failed to advise her she was a whistleblower when she sued her former employer.
   

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• Cases finalised in the Administrative Review Tribunal, by Member 14 October 2024 - 24 January 2025
   

• Candidate nominations raise questions over Australian Constitution - ABC News

  "Past convictions normally won't disqualify you from being a member of parliament," said Anne Twomey, a constitutional law expert from the University of Sydney. She said that was unless someone had been convicted of treason.

  "Well that's it, you're out forever," Professor Twomey said.
   

• Fleur Katsmartin - William and Lonsdale - Lives in the Law - Apple Podcasts

  This week, we welcome Fleur Katsmartin, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Throughout her law degree, articles and early legal roles, Fleur never felt like she was in the right place. In her words, it always seemed like she was “too much”. But Fleur found her legal sweet spot working in-house, specifically in purpose-driven organisations. This clarity led her to some very large and very dynamic roles. Fleur had just become General Counsel at Healthdirect Australia, the national virtual public health information service, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. And she now leads a team of lawyers at one of Australia’s largest public hospitals, where she describes herself as a Jane of all trades. It was a delight to welcome Fleur to the show and hear about her Life in the Law.
   

• AML regulation looms over the profession - Law Society Journal
   

• Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It by Brandon Waldon, Nathan Schneider, Ethan Wilcox, Amir Zeldes, Kevin Tobia :: SSRN
   

• How Trump is putting law firms in a no-win situation [AFR paywall]

  A swath of law firms have signed deals to head off the White House, but they have faced internal dissent for caving to threats.
   

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