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• Palestine Action Group launches legal challenge against controversial NSW laws restricting protests | New South Wales | The Guardian
   

• Woman who planned to sell human toes regurgitated by dogs pleads guilty in Melbourne court | Melbourne | The Guardian
   

• Climate activists to plead not guilty en masse under NSW’s controversial anti-protest laws | New South Wales | The Guardian
   

• Psychiatric care in NSW facing ‘collapse’ because of poor pay and conditions, court hears as arbitration battle begins | New South Wales | The Guardian
   

• Coalition to introduce new racketeering laws in bid to stamp out 'union corruption' - ABC News
   

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• Special Episode - Interview with the Hon. Ian Callinan AC KC - Upholding the Australian Constitution | Podcast on Spotify
   

• Statement From The Attorney-General | Premier

  In response to a technical printing error by Court Services Victoria, the Victorian Government is introducing the Family Violence Protection Amendment Bill 2025 to Parliament tomorrow.

  The printing error impacts copies of family violence intervention orders made in the Magistrates and Children’s Courts between 15 November 2024 and 5 March 2025 for service on respondents, which meant printed copies of the orders did not include the complete wording of the Court’s orders.
   

• A decades-long rap sheet of deceit blows open Slater and Gordon probe [AFR paywall]

  The woman whose first name matches metadata in the rogue salary and performance spreadsheet that erupted into a crisis at the law firm is a convicted fraudster.
   

• Terrorism and Parole in the High Court — Australian Public Law
   

• AI and copyright: is there a need to balance the rights of authors with the need to train AI? - Law Society Journal
   

• R v Mofu - NSW Caselaw

  [2] The accused objects to a screen shot taken by one of the complainants, Mr Christian Stadler, showing the results of using the Find My Phone application to locate his stolen iPhone. The bases of the objection are that the result produced by the Find My Phone application is opinion evidence, that no expert evidence is to be called to explain how the application works and that no evidence presently served by the Crown explains the steps taken by Mr Stadler to produce the screenshot.
   

• New RMIT School of Law opens for next generation of legal experts - RMIT University
   

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