USYD Law Professor Wins Case Against NSW Police (3 October 2023)

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Daily wrap

• Queensland court awards temporary order prohibiting the naming of high-profile man accused of rape

• Administrative Appeals Tribunal members will be forced to reapply for jobs after Labor stacking claims 

  • Recruitment of Members for the new Administrative Review Tribunal - media release by The Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP 
    

• Babet and Palmer notice of appeal in “X” votes referendum case made available online (appeal to be heard on 9 November 2023)

• Federal Court grants injunctions against online piracy requested by Foxtel and Disney

  • “Australia’s Federal Court has ordered the blocking of an updated set of domains for copyright infringement in a continuation of the battle over online piracy.”

  • A copy of the judgment found here - Roadshow Films Pty Limited v Telstra Corporation Limited (Extension of Orders) [2023] FCA 1167

• Industry leaders warn of 'big ripple effect' on Australian economy, international reputation after Woodside FCA defeat

• Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska asks court to render Australia’s sanctions regime invalid

  • “Deripaska launched a federal court challenge against the decision earlier this year, asking for a judge to render it void and of no effect.

    On Thursday, he amended his case to seek a declaration from the court that the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011, which provides for the deployment of Australian sanctions, is “invalid”.”

  • “Deripaska’s lawyers at Pragma, a Perth-based firm, has previously confirmed that the former attorney general Christian Porter was working on Deripaska’s legal team.”

• University of Sydney law professor Simon Rice wins court case against NSW Police [paywall requires free registration]. Video of the incident giving rise to case can be found here.

• NSW inquiry told power imbalance impediment to female inmates reporting Wayne Astill sexual abuse

• Senior UK judge given formal warning for ‘rude and hostile’ behaviour

• Voyeurism: when does it become a condition and can it be treated? Prison sentence overturned on appeal. 

  • “A judge ruled that Eric Wong, formerly a science teacher at Cammeraygal High School in Sydney, would not be able to access the necessary treatment for his voyeuristic disorder in prison and that a two-year intensive correction order, a custodial sentence served in the community, would be more beneficial to community safety.”

• Motorist fined after dog seen behind wheel of speeding car

Editor’s picks

• AG’s department has published responses to the public discussion paper “scoping the establishment of a federal judicial commission”. The published responses can be found here and include responses from The Hon Alan Robertson SC, Professor Gabrielle Appleby and Kieran Pender.

• Podcast - The Wigs: Analysing The Combating Misinformation and Disinformation Bill

• ‘Biggest overhaul of privacy laws in decades’ - Law Society Journal
  

• Proposed Voice to Parliament already more detailed than most of the constitution - Professor Simon Rice, University of Sydney
  

• Australian Academy of Law - 12th Annual Patron's Address - 12 Oct 2023, The Hon Chief Justice Peter Quinlan - “There is no single correct sentence: thoughts on choice, subjectivity and the ethics of sentencing”

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