Solicitor's Phone Tap Reveals 'Bushwhacked' Court Warning (12 September 2023)

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Daily wrap

The writ for the 2023 referendum has been issued - voting date is 14 October 2023.
Bill currently before the lower house which would all the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security to examine Australian spying operations.
NSWSC latest decisions of interest bulletin now out (3 July - 16 July 2023).
NSW publican-turned-lawyer Peter Desmond Payne convicted for perverting justice.
Chevron gambles on untested laws to halt Australia LNG strike action.
Ben Roberts-Smith fights war crime investigators’ push to access sensitive court files.

The Hon Keith Mason AC KC (former president of NSWCA and NSW Solicitor General) on Sir Frederick Jordan.
Winter 2023 NSW Bar News.
From an Anne Twomey article:
“When working for the Commonwealth Parliament, I once did some preliminary vetting of potential High Court judges for the Commonwealth Attorney‑General’s office. What was interesting was that the list of candidates included the most respected judges and barristers of the day, regardless of political association. A number of them have since been appointed to the Court by governments of different persuasions. More importantly, the vetting instructions were to comb through all their writings (judicial and extra‑judicial) to identify how they might decide upon certain controversial constitutional issues that were likely to arise concerning Commonwealth power. Whether a candidate was radical or conservative was not at issue — the real question was whether the candidate favoured Commonwealth dominance or federalism.”

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