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r/auslaw • u/theangryantipodean • Nov 30 '23
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r/auslaw • u/Worldly_Tomorrow_869 • 10h ago
Bogie triple killer gets 40 years without parole for executing neighbours
"Having concluded the three murders you committed fall into the worst category, I will set your parole eligibility date at 40 years from the time you were first taken into custody," Justice Johnstone said.
"You will be 99 years of age, if you are still alive, when you become eligible."
r/auslaw • u/marketrent • 10h ago
News Clive Palmer claims criminal charges against him are politically motivated, as he represents himself in fraud case over $12m transfers between his companies
r/auslaw • u/Vidasus18 • 1h ago
Serious Discussion Best book on a lawyer or judge or legal history
r/auslaw • u/Entertainer_Much • 21h ago
Case Discussion America beak shows their connection to the young people
r/auslaw • u/marcellouswp • 1d ago
Gift of the gab - guilty plea
Guilty pleas must be the great wide open space for advocacy. Take my hat off to Murugan Thangaraj for his efforts for Ashlyn Assif as reported today.
Especially this flourish:
“It’s appropriate that yesterday was Father’s day,” her lawyer Murugan Thangaraj SC told Burwood Local Court on Monday.
r/auslaw • u/Downtown-Complex-458 • 1d ago
News Christian Brothers Inc.
Looking forward to 4 corners tonight- Louise Milligan is fearless.
r/auslaw • u/CutePattern1098 • 1d ago
It’s a News Bonanza! Legal experts say Neo-Nazis could win in Australian High Court
r/auslaw • u/ThreeHapenceaFoot • 1d ago
Landholders say renewable energy zone 'void' due to missing report
r/auslaw • u/ManWithDominantClaw • 1d ago
Are Anti-Flag Burning Laws Constitutionally Valid?
r/auslaw • u/marketrent • 2d ago
News ‘Let’s talk about the controversy around the aspiring silks list’: Janek Drevikovsky
r/auslaw • u/Execution_Version • 3d ago
News Workplace Investigations: Allens paving the legal road to nowhere
r/auslaw • u/Donners22 • 4d ago
Ex-judge pleads guilty to possession of child abuse material
r/auslaw • u/marketrent • 4d ago
Get your hand off it, Justice Lee ‘Significant use of AI in all types of civil litigation is not something that is coming; it has already come’: Lee J
fedcourt.gov.aur/auslaw • u/ManWithDominantClaw • 3d ago
Why Australians voted against inserting freedom of speech in the Constitution
r/auslaw • u/cressidasmunch • 4d ago
'Sisyphus would be proud' - a direction to rectify something that doesn't exist
r/auslaw • u/ManWithDominantClaw • 4d ago
Shitpost The Joker giving the "Not so different, you and I" speech
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r/auslaw • u/marketrent • 4d ago
Judgment Perram J on Lee J: “The smile is susceptible to differing interpretations. The smile may be construed as a mocking smile or smirk, but it may also be construed as one of wry bemusement.”
judgments.fedcourt.gov.aur/auslaw • u/Actual-Use6713 • 5d ago