Lehrmann judgment at 10:15am today

Daily wrap  

• The delivery of Justice Lee’s judgment in the Lehrmann defamation proceedings will be live streamed here from 10:15am AEST.
   

  • The judgement in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial will be handed down today. This is what's at stake for each party - ABC News
     

  • Bruce Lehrmann defamation case: ‘Destined for greatness’: Justice Michael Lee tested his arm with former PM Bob Hawke [AFR paywall]
     

  • Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins saga: the night that spawned more than a dozen legal cases | Defamation law (Australia) | The Guardian
     

  • Bruce Lehrmann booted from North Sydney house after party [SMH paywall]
     

    • 54 Edward Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060 - Property Details
       

• Celebrity lawyer raked over coals for misconduct | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT [paywall]
   

  • The decision can be found here - Council of the New South Wales Bar Association v Waterstreet - NSW Caselaw
     

• Anti far-right campaigners say Labor’s anti-doxing laws could be weaponised | Australia news | The Guardian
   

• Driver of car clocked 51kph over limit in Seacliff Park wins appeal against speeding conviction - ABC News
   

  • ZEFI v COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
     

• Charges against Meta sparked by Andrew Forrest over false cryptocurrency ads on Facebook discontinued - ABC News
   

• Identity of Melbourne businessman kept secret after he avoids jail for child sex offence - ABC News
   

  • DPP (Cth) v Weaver (a pseudonym) (Suppression Order) [2024] VCC 439 (11 April 2024)
     

Editor’s picks

• New Chief Justice for Supreme Court of Norfolk Island | Ministers for the Department of Infrastructure
   

• If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of - ABC News
   

• Mock Juries, Real Trials: How to Solve (some) Problems with Jury Science by Lewis Ross :: SSRN

  Jury science is fraught with difficulty. Since legal and institutional hurdles render it all but impossible to study live criminal jury deliberation, researchers make use of various indirect methods to evaluate jury performance. But each of these methods are open to methodological criticism and, strikingly, some of the highest-profile jury research programmes in recent years have reached opposing conclusions. Uncertainty about jury performance is an obstacle for legal reform—ongoing debates about the ‘justice gap’ for complainants of sexual offences has rendered these problems stark. This paper proposes a way to advance the debate.
   

• Good ideas lost in a broken system that’s overdue for reform - Prof George Williams [The Australian paywall]

  We need a constitutional commission to ‘road-test’ worthwhile reforms, such as fixed four-year terms for federal parliament, before referendums are held.
   

• The quiet message from the High Court that embodies the saga that's followed a landmark ruling
   

• Rate of sterilizations in US jumped after overturning of Roe v Wade, study shows | Roe v Wade | The Guardian
   

• Williams v Williams - Find case law - The National Archives [UK]

  • “On the 3 October 2023 the online divorce portal operated by HM Courts and Tribunals Service [‘HMCTS’] issued a final order of divorce in proceedings between Mrs Williams, the applicant wife, and Mr Williams, the respondent husband. The solicitors acting for the applicant, who had used the online divorce portal to apply for the final order, did so without the instruction or authority of their client, Mrs Williams. The solicitors have explained that the member of staff involved had intended to apply for a final order of divorce for another client, in a different divorce case, but inadvertently opened the electronic case file in ‘Williams v Williams’ and proceeded to apply for a final order in that case.”
     

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