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• Network Ten requests Bruce Lehrmann pay $200,000 security against cost of appeal | Australian media | The Guardian
   

• Greg Lynn: Jury sent home for weekend in former pilot’s trial over deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

• Terminally ill 'bicycle bandit' has sentencing fast-tracked before using voluntary assisted dying laws, court hears - ABC News
   

• Controversial fintech company breached law [The Australian paywall]

  The Federal Court has found iSignthis and its CEO ran afoul of deception rules, with the corporate cop succeeding in most elements of its long-running case.
   

  • Australian Securities and Investments Commission v iSignthis Limited [2024] FCA 669
     

• Nuclear power: How would Peter Dutton's proposal go ahead legally? | SBS News
   

  • Peter Dutton's nuclear dream ignores too many legal obstacles
     

Editor’s picks

• Appointments to the Federal Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) | Our ministers – Attorney-General’s portfolio
   

  • Ms Needham graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales in 1986 and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Technology, Sydney, in 1990. Ms Needham was called to the New South Wales Bar in 1990. She was appointed Senior Counsel in 2004.
     

  • Mr McDonald graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Adelaide in 2001 and subsequently completed a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) in 2004 from the University of Adelaide. Mr McDonald was admitted in the Supreme Court of South Australia in 2004 and was called to the South Australian Bar in 2011. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2020.
     

• Reappointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal | Our ministers – Attorney-General’s portfolio

  The Australian Government has made 72 reappointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) including two non-judicial Deputy Presidents, 14 Senior Members and 56 Members.
   

• The many cases of Bruce Lerhmann | The Saturday Paper

  “As Bruce Lehrmann faces another rape trial in Toowoomba, several other cases and appeals involving the former political staffer are still running.”
   

• How courts killed nuclear waste facilities in Australia - Anne Twomey - YouTube
   

• Rethinking retirement at law firms - Law Society Journal

  “As Australia’s workforce ages, experts say there are a host of ways to harness and retain the talents of older workers in the legal profession.”
   

• Recovering lost wages is nearly impossible for Australia’s underpaid migrant workers. Here’s how to fix the problem

  “In 2009, the federal “small claims” court process was established in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia. The idea was to give workers a simple and accessible forum to claim unpaid wages and entitlements from their employers – without needing a lawyer.

  But our new research has found that in reality, this process is virtually impossible to use without legal support.”
  

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