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• Lawyer X Nicola Gobbo loses compensation claim for damages suffered after informing on her clients - ABC News
   

  • Gobbo v State of Victoria (redacted) [2025] VSC 334 (13 June 2025)
     

  • Gobbo, Mokbel and the Cops - Gavin Silbert KC - Quadrant

    In February of this year the following motion was moved in the Bar Council, the governing organ of the Victorian Bar:

    The Victorian Bar calls on the Director of Public Prosecutions to submit the briefs of evidence and all relevant material against Nicola Gobbo and those members of Victoria Police identified by the special investigator and by Justice Fullerton as having committed criminal offences to an out of state director of public prosecutions for advice on whether sufficient evidence exists to warrant the institution of criminal prosecutions against them and the Victorian Bar release an immediate statement to that effect.

    Inexplicably, and in complete abrogation of its long held public duty, the motion was defeated 13 to 6. Has the Victorian Bar now joined the Victorian government and Victoria Police in the most egregious cover up in Victorian legal history?
     

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• Bob Brown’s conviction appeal dismissed [The Mercury paywall]

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  • Brown v Hariss [2025] TASSC 32 (12 June 2025)
     

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• Lawyer loses battle to keep secret her guilty plea to attempting to pervert justice [The Age paywall]

  A Melbourne solicitor has admitted arranging for a person to lie to police about their involvement in a matter where a vehicle drove erratically and away from police.
   

• Lawyer’s shock texts to intern revealed after court defeat [Daily Telegraph paywall]

  The risque texts a high profile Sydney lawyer sent to his newly appointed intern have been revealed after his efforts to cover them up as she sues him for sexual harassment were denied.
   

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• Corrupt Qld lawyer busted drink driving attempted to bribe cops [The Courier Mail paywall]

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  • Legal Services Commissioner v Winning [2025] QCAT 198 - Caselaw
     

• Sydney Muslim cleric revels in being ‘deliberately provocative’ and must be restrained by law, court hears | Australia news | The Guardian
   

• Victorian sexual abuse survivor wins 'landmark' case against Waller Legal - ABC News
   

  • Pearce v Waller Legal [2025] VSC 324 (6 June 2025)
     

• Lawyer sues for damages over car accident she was not involved in - Lawyers Weekly [paywall]

   

  •  Lundbergs v Fu & Anor [2025] QSC 135 (6 June 2025)
     

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