The South Australian legal watchdog has won its appeal of a decision which found it did not have the power to lay charges against a lawyer accused of âinappropriate and uninvitedâ sexual contact with a junior solicitor.
Asylum seekers who were put in immigration detention in South Australia can transfer their cases to the Federal Court to run their claims as a class action accusing the federal government of negligence and unlawful detention.
Judges were not afraid to vent their spleen in 2023, but lawyers were not the only object of judicial scorn last year, as judges waded into public discourse and sounded off over issues including complex legislation, media reports, famous social media commentators, and the involvement of government departments in legal proceedings.Â
The family of late pastoralist Thomas Brinkworth can’t get security for costs from a landowner bringing a bushfire class action in South Australia, with a court ruling security was unnecessary under the class action rules in the state, which can bind all group members to an adverse costs order.
An Adelaide lawyer who won a long-running defamation battle over a Today Tonight story that described her as a âCentrelink cheatâ has lost her bid for a bigger payout after a court found there was no misapprehension of fact or law in its determination of damages.
Television network Channel Seven has been ordered to pay $280,000 in damages to a lawyer after an appeals court ruled a Today Tonight segment labelling her a “Centrelink cheat” was defamatory.
Channel Seven has lost a six-year defamation battle over a Today Tonight story that described a woman on single parenting payments as “the Centrelink cheat who got awayâ, after an appeals court found the publication was “manifestly unreasonable”.