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• Elon Musk and X to fight Australian eSafety order to remove content relating to Sydney stabbing | Australia news | The Guardian
   

  • The statement on behalf of X can be found here.
     

• Linda Reynolds welcomes Brittany Higgins’ ‘olive branch’ but says without concessions she will go to trial | Australian politics | The Guardian
   

• Double or nothing: Australia’s first ‘job-sharing’ political candidates raise constitutional questions | Australian politics | The Guardian
   

  • Can Australian federal politicians job-share? - Anne Twomey - YouTube
     

• Behnam Roohizadegan thought he'd won a record $5.2m payout against software firm TechnologyOne but the case is set for retrial - ABC News
   

  • the decision requiring a retrial can be found here - TechnologyOne Limited v Roohizadegan [2021] FCAFC 137 (5 August 2021)
     

• Family violence is a 'men's issue': Chief Justice of the Family Court calls on men to lead change - ABC News
   

• Victoria’s alleged mushroom murders case: Erin Patterson set to face court on Monday | Victoria | The Guardian
   

• Martin Bennett: Lawyer representing Linda Reynolds against Brittany Higgins fined for professional misconduct | The Nightly
   

  • LEGAL SERVICES AND COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE and BENNETT [2024] WASAT 28 (17 April 2024)
     

• The Snitch: State MP’s mystery slander case against radio station [Daily Telegraph paywall]

  Why is a state MP Gareth Ward suing for defamation? Can Bruce Lehrmann still become a lawyer? And which judge hates being wished a good morning?
   

• Tax specialist renews court claims over Lendlease spat [The Australian paywall]

  A former Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills tax lawyer is pushing ahead with legal action against his old firm after raising concerns over the tax treatments of client Lendlease.
   

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• In case you missed our Linkedin post from last week - Could judges of the High Court be forced to hear matter where they have a direct financial interest in the outcome?
   

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  AustLII's DataLex can be used to develop legal reasoning applications in areas such as legal advisory services, regulatory compliance, decision support and Rules as Code. AustLII is a joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.
   

• Brittany Higgins received $2.4m in compensation. Why are some now saying she should pay it back? | Australia news | The Guardian
   

  • Brittany Higgins hopes Bruce Lehrmann rape finding sets ‘new precedent’ for sexual assault survivors | Australia news | The Guardian
     

  • Bruce Lehrmann: Is it time to rethink the right of an accused to silence? | The Australian
     

  • In five words Justice Lee brought Lehrmann's defamation case back to its central proposition. The words of our political leaders matter, too - ABC News
     

  • What Bruce Lehrmann could do next [AFR paywall]
     

  • Every player in the Lehrmann scandal | The Saturday Paper
     

• Perilous legal path through migrant detention quagmire - Prof George Williams
   

• What are the terrorism laws that apply to the 16-year-old charged with the Sydney church stabbing? - ABC News
   

• Can people be forced to assist in their own deportation? - Law Society Journal
   

• Mapping (almost) every law, regulation and case in Australia - Umar Butler

  What if you could take every law, regulation and case in Australia and project them onto a two-dimensional map such that their distance from one another was proportional to their similarity in meaning? What would that look like?
   

• Ratings agency crowns ‘best’ Australian lawyers and firms [The Australian paywall]

  From ones to watch to the cream of the crop, here’s some who made the Best Lawyers list, with Sydney the home to more than any other city.
   

  • Best Lawyers in Australia | Best Lawyers
     

• John Silvester Naked City: Is justice served when identities are suppressed by the courts? [SMH paywall]
   

• Anthony Gray, ‘Voting Rights of Expatriates and the Australian Constitution’ (2023) 49(3) Monash University Law Review
   

• As the world is on a knife-edge over Gaza, Israel and Iran are following the rules of the jungle, not the rule of law set out in the United Nations Charter - Prof Ben Saul [SMH paywall]
     

• Guidelines for use of generative artificial intelligence in Courts and Tribunals — Courts of New Zealand
   

• The jurors: who is on the Trump trial jury? | Donald Trump trials | The Guardian
   

  • Juror No 3 is a man who appeared to be in his late 20s or early 30s, who is originally from the west coast. He works in corporate law and said that he gets his news from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Google.
     

  • Juror No 7 is a man in his late middle age who works as a civil litigator. He is married with children and has never served on a jury. He gets his news from a variety of outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and the Washington Post, and from podcasts.
     

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