Lawyer charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice

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• Gangland lawyer no longer has law licence, regulator says [SMH paywall]

  Solicitor Sarah Tricarico, who has acted for Tony Mokbel in his fight to have his convictions quashed, is charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
   

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  • Sofianidis v Hill - NSW Caselaw

    [17] The Court now emphasises two things:

    (1) That Ms Hill was ordered by order 4 to attend today. By her non-appearance, either by counsel or by herself today, she is in breach of order 4.

    (2) By way of penal notice, the defendant was warned that if she refused or neglected to do anything as she was ordered to do on 20 December 2024, that she may be liable to penalties.

    [18] The defendant is now in breach of that order. She has persistently ignored the legal process in these proceedings. What is to be done?

     

• Truck driver involved in fatal crash has licence suspended after refusing a drug test - ABC News
   

• Why Aussies could head for referendum

  Peter Dutton will ask Australians to decide on the deportation of people on visas convicted of anti-Semitic crimes at a referendum - if potential laws were overturned by the High Court, a Liberal Party stalwart has told a controversial Jewish lobby group.

   

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• Online file - Tarnawsky v Commonwealth of Australia (Dept. Finance)
   

• Can an Australian State impose income tax? - Anne Twomey - YouTube

  This video addresses the history of the tax mix in Australia. After excise was taken from the States by s 90 of the Constitution in 1901, the States expanded their direct taxes, with income tax becoming their main form of tax revenue. During World War II, the Commonwealth took over income tax, with the promise of returning it to the States one year after the war ended. This did not happen.

   

• Tasmanian law recognises hate crimes — but no-one has ever been convicted of one - ABC News
   

• Victoria’s about-turn on bail laws reflects the age-old conflict between reform and reaction. How did we get here again? | Russell Marks | The Guardian
   

• ‘Extremely serious’: ACT solicitor to be struck off for trust money offences - Lawyers Weekly
   

  • COUNCIL OF THE LAW SOCIETY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY v LEGAL PRACTITIONER 012022 (Gillian Yeend) (No.2) (Occupational Discipline) [2025] ACAT 15 (11 March 2025)
     

• Trump asks supreme court to allow order against birthright citizenship | Trump administration | The Guardian
   

• Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up deportations, judge stalls it hours later - ABC News
   

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