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Daily wrap  

• Police ‘groomed’ Melbourne lawyer turned informer Nicola Gobbo, court hears | Victoria | The Guardian
   

  • Nicola Gobbo won't attend court due to 'security issues' as she seeks damages over police informing - ABC News
     

  • Police seek protection against criminal charges in Nicola Gobbo lawsuit [The Age paywall]

    An unusual legal move could protect any officer testifying from self-incrimination and being prosecuted.

     

• Liberal figure Michael Kroger urged for ‘more crazy stuff’ to be found and used to oust Moira Deeming, court hears | Victorian politics | The Guardian
   

• Concerns over Gender Queer book dismissed by Australian classifications board as anti-LGBTQ+, court hears | Censorship | The Guardian
   

• Cleo Smith abductor’s appeal against sentence fails | Western Australia | The Guardian
   

  • KELLY -v- THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA [2024] WASCA 116 (30 September 2024)
     

Editor’s picks

• Is the $3.9 billion investment to bolster Australia's legal assistance sector all it seems? - Law Society Journal
   

• Misinformation laws could stymie public health debates: Coatsworth [AFR paywall]

  The nation’s deputy chief medical officer during the COVID-19 pandemic says Labor’s proposed crackdown on misinformation and disinformation goes too far.
   

• 2024 Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture - Melbourne Law School - YouTube

  ‘International Law and the Multilateral System in Face of Climate Change and Threats to the Ocean’ - Presented by Dr Nilufer Oral, Director, Centre of International Law, National University of Singapore
   

• High Court Bulletin for September 2024
   

• The Sydney juror, the murder trial and the employer’s threats [SMH paywall]

  An employer in Sydney’s inner west who threatened to sack a woman for declining to work shifts while serving jury duty in a murder trial has become one of the few Australian bosses prosecuted under laws protecting jurors.

   

• 30 October 2024 - Lucinda Lecture - Professor Peter Gerangelos - ‘The Executive Power Of The Commonwealth’: Its Dimensions and Implications
   

• Baby Reindeer was wrongly billed by Netflix as a ‘true story’, judge finds | Baby Reindeer | The Guardian

  Fiona Harvey, the inspiration for Martha, can proceed with defamation lawsuit after a US judge agrees the show suggested she was convicted for stalking creator Richard Gadd
   

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