Three HCA judgments handed down

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Daily wrap  

• Three HCA judgments handed down yesterday:
   

  • Chief Executive Officer, Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority v Director of National Parks [2024] HCA 16 (8 May 2024). Judgment summary here.
     

    • Landmark high court ruling finds commonwealth government liable for sacred site damage | Northern Territory | The Guardian
       

  • Cessnock City Council v 123 259 932 Pty Ltd [2024] HCA 17 (8 May 2024). Judgment summary here.
     

  • Obian v The King [2024] HCA 18 (8 May 2024). Judgment summary here.
     

• Man wrongly identified as Bondi Junction killer on social media asks police to consider prosecutions | Bondi Junction stabbings | The Guardian
   

• Former LNP president David Hutchinson ordered to pay costs after misusing Morrison government grant - ABC News
   

  • Windsor Family Assets Pty Ltd v Green Day Energy Pty Ltd (Administrators Appointed) (No 2) [2024] FCA 412.
     

• Bruce Lehrmann's legal team made agreement not to charge him if they lost defamation action, court hears - ABC News
   

• High court decision to limit Catholic church abuse legal tactics to become law under NSW proposal | Law (Australia) | The Guardian
   

• Powercor to pay $2.1-million fine after failing to clear vegetation that led to 2023 Glenmore bushfire - ABC News
   

• Nick Martin: Widow of slain Rebels bikie boss sues State Government over sniper murder of husband | The Nightly
   

Editor’s picks

• Former Speaker of the House of Representative Peter Slipper (who is now a barrister at the Tas Bar) has made a request that solicitors do not robe in the Tas Magistrates Court
   

  • The Honourable Peter Slipper BA LLB - Tasmanian Bar Association
     

• Stephen Gageler statement on Bicentenary of Supreme Courts of Tasmania and New South Wales
   

• Will wage transparency close the gender pay gap in law? - Law Society Journal
   

• 2024 Lawyering from home - Online CPD with the Hon Rene Le Miere KC - 21 May 2024 - The Piddington Society
   

• Mona: Women-only exhibit to become a toilet to keep men out +  Australia women's-only exhibit files appeal to keep men out
   

• Law Report: The end of non-compete clauses? Bad Neighbours: smells on Apple Podcasts
   

• 2024 Caldwell lecture: ‘Mā te ture anō te ture e āki (The Law must look itself in the mirror) - Justice Joe Williams (NZSC) - Trinity College Melbourne - Youtube  

  In this lecture, Justice Williams will discuss how law, including our conception of law and its purpose, is changing in ways that are providing a firmer foothold for First Nations in the life of post-colonial States. He will situate these developments within the wider context of the contemporary search for a durable post-colonial identity. Justice Williams will consider the parallel journeys of New Zealand and Australia as case studies.
   

• Ep 3: Behind the Bar - Conversations with a Criminal Lawyer - Legally Speaking | Podcast on Spotify

  Hear from criminal lawyer Ben Watson about his journey and what it takes to thrive in criminal law.
   

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