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Lehrmann inquiry head faces possible charges, integrity probe over leaked report
Legal Ethics 2023-08-08 9:53 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Walter Sofronoff KC, who led an inquiry into Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial could face sanction or a probe by the ACT integrity commission after the territory’s chief minister said the former Supreme Court Justice breached his “good faith” by leaking his findings to the media. 

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Bruce Lehrmann case ‘beset by tension’ between police, DPP, inquiry told
Crime 2023-04-17 11:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

The relationship between police and prosecutors involved in the criminal case against accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann was “beset by tension” from the outset, an inquiry has heard.

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Swing and whiff: Palmer Leisure can’t dodge lawsuit over political donation
Real Estate 2022-08-18 11:47 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected a bid by Clive Palmer-owned Palmer Leisure Australia to throw out legal action by the Electoral Commission of Queensland over donations the golf course management company made to Palmer’s United Australia Party in 2020.

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Clive Palmer loses High Court battle over right to sue WA for $30B
High Court 2021-10-13 6:29 pm By Miklos Bolza

Mining magnate Clive Palmer and two of his mining firms have lost a High Court challenge seeking to overturn a Western Australian law which prevented him from suing the state government for $30 billion over mining tenements in the Pilbara.

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Judges shoot down last-minute bid to amend Adani native title appeal
Appeals 2019-06-05 12:12 pm By Amelia Birnie

A group of Indigenous Australians opposed to Adani’s Carmichael coal mine in Queensland have lost an eleventh hour bid to add extra grounds to their native title appeal, as they wait for a decision from the Full Federal Court.

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