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• Audit of NSW sexual assault cases finds 'no systemic deficiencies' - ABC News
   

  • Sexual Assault Review Report 2025 - NSW ODPP
     

  • Review finds 97% of NSW sexual assault cases prosecuted fairly, despite judge’s concerns about ‘meritless’ cases | New South Wales | The Guardian
     

• Chief justices in stand-off over ‘surprise’ review intervention [AFR paywall]

  The Federal Court Chief Justice withdrew a surprise submission to a review of the Federal Circuit and Family Court, after its Chief Justice complained.
   

  • Legal and Constitutional Affairs | ESTIMATES | 25/02/2025 - YouTube

     

• Rebekah Giles accused in court of witness coaching in cavoodle case [The Age paywall]

  Barrister Gina Edwards is in dispute with her former lawyers Giles George, who represented her in her defamation case against A Current Affair.
   

  • Edwards v Nine Network Australia Pty Limited (No 7) [2025] FCA 137

    [8] I do not propose, for present purposes, to rehearse Ms Edwards’ submissions in that regard in any detail. That is particularly so given that some of the submissions raised serious allegations against Giles George. I also had difficulty understanding some of the submissions. It suffices for me to note that I am not, at this stage at least, persuaded that the nature of the alleged conduct of Giles George that Ms Edwards identified in her submissions was conduct which would, if established, necessarily disentitle Giles George of the benefit of an equitable lien…
     

• NT chief justice outlines court's decision to bail teenager charged over Alice Springs home invasion - ABC News
   

• No real risk Mark Latham will repeat 'vulgar' MP comment | Milton Ulladulla Times | Ulladulla, NSW
   

  • Greenwich v Latham (No 2) [2025] FCA 131
     

• Extra 220 children may have been wrongly detained as adult people smugglers in Australia, government admits | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian
   

• Former Liberal minister Michael Ferguson's personal defamation action used $300,000 in public funds, documents show - ABC News
   

Editor’s picks

• Mr Fix-It: The unusual legal practice of Leon Zwier [AFR paywall]

  For decades, Zwier has been the lawyer of choice for Australia’s most powerful moguls. But lately, he’s taken on a very different client.
   

• Social media defamation in the spotlight at Law Society forum - Law Society Journal
   

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