Lehrmann v Brereton + Farrell

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• Bruce Lehrmann lodges legal action against government in Federal Court - ABC News

   

• Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson sentenced to life in prison with 33 years non-parole - ABC News
   

  • R v Patterson (Sentence) [2025] VSC 557 (8 September 2025)
     

  • Locked up until 2056: how does Patterson’s sentence compare? [The Australian paywall]

    The mushroom murderer has been handed a more brutal sentence than Frankston killer Paul Denyer, and will be locked up for longer than any other female killer in Victoria.
     

  • Erin Patterson sentenced in mushroom murder trial - Law Report - Apple Podcasts

    Guest: Dr Sarah Krasnostein, writer and expert in sentencing law; co-author of the upcoming book on the Patterson trial, The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder
     

• Woolworths and Coles underpayments could cost more than $1 billion and have wider fallout - ABC News

  Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths expect to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more to repay staff the companies underpaid, following a legal judgement experts say could have wide-reaching implications.
   

  • Fair Work Ombudsman v Woolworths Group Limited; Fair Work Ombudsman v Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd; Baker v Woolworths Group Limited; Pabalan v Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 1092

    [844] “In answer to the whole claim, Coles pleads a limitation defence at §39A-39C of its Further Amended Defence. Neither the pleading nor the written submissions in support of that pleading are comprehensible and nothing is to be gained by burdening the reader with them except perhaps a useful comparison with Heironymus Bosch’s 1515 triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.” (for the uncultured - The Garden of Earthly Delights - Wikipedia)
     

  • New Federal Court Decision Upends Salaried Arrangements across all Industries | ABLA
     

• Unlawful WA Police search allows man found with packages of meth to walk free - ABC News
   

  • THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA -v- QMT (pseudonym initials) [2025] WADC 48 (15 August 2025)
     

• $1m on legal fees and feeling 'powerless': Parents detail 'crushing' Family Court experiences - ABC News
   

• Australia Unites drops Sydney Harbour Bridge march plans for anti-corruption rally - ABC News
   

• Premier blocks access to WFH briefings as legal challenge looms [The Australian paywall]

  Experts say the Victorian Premier’s pledge to establish a broad right to work from home is likely unconstitutional, as the government blocks access to its legal advice.
   

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