NSWCA rules on HWLE partnership dispute

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Editor’s picks

• Lewis v Estate of Juan Martinez [2025] NSWCA 2 - NSW Caselaw (dispute relating to an expulsion from the HWLE partnership)
   

• Harold LUNTZ Obituary (1937 - 2025) - The Age
   

  • Professor Harold Luntz AO
     

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• The Employment Reality of TV Fame (2025 Edition) | Swaab

  “Giv­en the suc­cess of some of these pro­grammes [e.g. Mar­ried at First Sight], and the way in which they gen­er­ate dis­cus­sion and debate, par­tic­u­lar­ly on social media, the real­i­ty (par­don the pun) is that an employ­ee’s appear­ance on these shows could con­ceiv­ably cause the kind of harm to the inter­ests of the employ­er con­tem­plat­ed by Rose v Tel­stra Cor­po­ra­tion.”
   

International
 

• Tickle and Summers -v- BBC, PA and others - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

  [1] These appeals concern the court’s jurisdiction to prohibit the publication of the names of the judges who have decided particular cases in the past. The question arises in the context of historic care proceedings and private family law proceedings (the historic proceedings) relating to Sara Sharif (Sara), who was brutally murdered by her father and step-mother in early August 2023. The conclusions we reach may have wider significance.
   

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