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Sarah Tricarico will be allowed to continue to represent Mokbel as she vows to fight the suspension of her practising certificate after being charged following a police sting.
Australian war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith is considering legal action after it was revealed a Nine journalist claimed he received briefings on the Victoria Cross recipient’s legal strategy during a multimillion dollar defamation suit.
The law firm says a forensic investigation has found the sender of the infamous memo had access to sensitive data and was familiar with its cybersecurity.
The accounting and consultancy firm named Paul McNab as one of a dozen people implicated in a tax leaks scandal. He denied the allegation, and sued the firm.
Editor’s picks
Insults and arson: How one man’s chants could define free speech [The Age paywall]
A fight over a restaurant owner’s “insulting” chant in the streets could go all the way to the High Court.
Sydney University constitutional expert professor Anne Twomey said the use of “insulting speech” laws to regulate a political protest could potentially face a constitutional challenge in the High Court - “It raises an issue of the implied freedom of political communications in the Constitution”.
The dodgy vet, the pet detective and the million-dollar legal battle [The Age paywall]
Pet detective Anne-Marie Curry was enlisted to help crack the case of a missing puppy. Just as she started to make headway, the tables were turned.
An emoji, a protest placard and a tweet by a soccer fan have all led to criminal charges in Britain. Were the prosecutions appropriate?
"there is, in our view, little risk in the present case that a jury will be unduly influenced by the ‘CSI effect’ (a reference to the atmosphere of scientific confidence evoked in the imagination of the average juror by descriptions of DNA findings)."
— #Jeremy Gans (#@jeremy_gans)
1:12 AM • Mar 25, 2025
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