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Daily wrap  

•  Supreme Court judge faces court on assault charge, media barred from court building

   

• Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial: two lives in the balance over the rape allegations dividing Australia | Australia news | The Guardian

   

  • Bruce Lehrmann's defamation action was set to be a re-run of his trial, but some key evidence is being revealed

     

• Review urges major changes to Australia’s ‘oppressive’ national security secrecy laws | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian

   

  • A copy of the report can be found here - The operation and effectiveness of the National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004 | INSLM

     

  • Australia’s surveillance laws: let’s hear from those at the pointy end before the spies | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian

     

• Judge considers whether 22-year-old who stabbed sleeping homeless man in Brisbane should ever be released | Queensland | The Guardian

   

• Search for websites using unlicensed Pokémon branding leads from Sydney to computer in Ukraine, Federal Court hears - ABC News

   

  • A copy of the judgment can be found here - The Pokemon Company International, Inc v Pokemon Pty Ltd (No 2) [2023] FCA 1507

     

• Woman sexually abused by Chris Dawson as a schoolgirl settles lawsuit against New South Wales

   

• Hilton goes up against the ATO over $80m of allegedly unpaid tax - Travel Weekly

   

• 'Serious offenders' recently released by High Court could be locked up again under proposed law

   

• Preventative detention laws: Departed security watchdog Grant Donaldson calls laws a disgrace

   

• Name of NSW police officer charged with drink-driving to be secret until 2063

   

• Like a 'wheelie bin left in the hot sun': Queensland government launches legal action against garbage facility

   

• Former commander says 100 bullets fired by police to end stand-off with ex-Army reservist is appropriate

   

• ATO welcomes decision in Pepsi vs Commissioner of Taxation | Australian Taxation Office

   

• ‘Cannot be trusted’: Lawyer banned amid financial probe [Herald Sun paywall]

   

Editor’s picks

• Anne Twomey - NZYQ - Why the High Court held indefinite immigration detention unlawful - YouTube

   

• Inquiry into the convictions of the Croatian Six starts today with livestream available here. 

   

• The Wigs: The Vanderstock Decision: The Exclusive Power of the Commonwealth to Levy Duties of Excise on Apple Podcasts

   

• Does WA's justice system have a 'light-touch' approach to serious offenders?

   

• ACT 1 of 2023 - Applications by ANZ and Suncorp - YouTube (livestream from 10:15am)

   

  • Background to the matter found here - Competition watchdog blocks ANZ $4.9bn takeover of Suncorp over ‘oligopoly’ fears | Australia news | The Guardian

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