Special leave hearing for $894m tax case

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• Today the High Court is hearing an application for special leave to appeal in a case concerning $894m of tax deductions - High Court of Australia, Friday, 25 October 2024.
   

  • Might be live streamed here - SLA Live Streaming - High Court of Australia.
     

  • Here is the decision being appealed - Singapore Telecom Australia Investments Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2024] FCAFC 29 (8 March 2024)
     

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Editor’s picks

• Is Lidia Thorpe's Senate seat at risk? Here's everything you need to know | SBS News
   

  • Lidia's Oath - Swearing at or to the King - Anne Twomey - YouTube

    This video deals with a storm in a teacup about whether the parliamentary oath of allegiance of an Australian Senator, Lidia Thorpe, was valid or has since been repudiated, because of the mispronunciation of 'heirs' and her subsequent rejection of the King as Sovereign.

    It contrasts the position in Australia, where the oath is an internal parliamentary matter which is probably non-justiciable, with the United Kingdom, where there are legal consequences that arise from sitting if the Member has not made and subscribed the required oath.

    It considers some UK precedents from the nineteenth century affecting MPs who were Jewish or atheists. There are, however, no Australian precedents of which I'm aware.
     

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• Should non-compete clauses be banned in Australia? - Law Society Journal
   

• Relevance, Probative Value, and Admissibility in the Criminal Trial: Atomism, Holism, and Incoherence in the High Court - David Hamer - UNSW Law Journal
   

• A Comparative Analysis of Litigation Funding in Insolvency Claims and in Class Actions - Michael Duffy and Sulette Lombard - UNSW Law Journal
   

• Alien or Australian? The Involuntary Deprivation of Citizenship for Repudiation of Allegiance to Australia under Section 51(xxix) of the Constitution - Ashwini Ravindran - UNSW Law Journal
   

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