Sofronoff gets up on parliamentary privilege

Court rejects claim in Walter Sofronoff’s bid to overturn corruption ruling | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines

“I am not satisfied that the conduct of the proceedings on the material on which the applicant seeks to rely involves an infringement of Section 16 of the Parliamentary Privilege Act,” Justice Abraham told the court.

“I’ll provide reasons for that in my final judgment.”

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The Victorian Bar notes the recent article and opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review concerning commercial work conducted in the Federal Court, the Commercial Court of the Victorian Supreme Court and other jurisdictions. Members of our Bar have a long tradition of working across the commercial jurisdictions, including in the Courts and Tribunals of other states, and internationally…

2025 Selden Society lecture—the Hon Mary Finn on 50 years of the Family Law Act - YouTube

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Ponzio v Ashley Services Group Limited [2025] FedCFamC2G 289 (27 February 2025)

[91] On 3 February 2025 Ms Ponzio in an email addressed to “Associates and Judges” (see [58] above) Ms Ponzio suggested that she had previously raised the matter of Magna Carta with the Court and then asked whether the addressees were “aware that there is such a thing as THE MAGNA CARTA?”, before suggesting that “[i]f not google it”. The Court notes that Ms Ponzio had not previously raised Magna Carta as an issue.

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