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• Convicted sex offender MP Gareth Ward loses bid to stop NSW parliament expulsion - ABC News
   

  • Ward v Hoenig [2025] NSWCA 180 (7 August 2025)
     

• Legal academic Alan Boulton granted bail over child abuse material charges - ABC News

  A former judge and legal academic accused of inadvertently showing child abuse material to university students has been bailed after facing court for the first time.
   

• Husband of WA woman accused of abusing their kids threatens to kill judge [SMH paywall]

  The husband of a woman who lied about her children having cancer has made a threat to the judge who will sentence her on Monday.
   

• Google adtech class action leaves Australian law firm snookered by court ruling | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation [paywall]
   

  • Riverine Grazier Pty Ltd v Google LLC [2025] FCA 895

     

• First witness appears in trial after Outback Wrangler star’s death in helicopter crash | Northern Territory | The Guardian
   

  • TV star Matt Wright trial: Croc wrangler told friend to 'torch' chopper log book, jury hears — as it happened - ABC News
     

• Kathleen Folbigg’s $2m compensation ‘a moral affront’ after two decades in jail for wrongful convictions, lawyer says | New South Wales | The Guardian
   

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