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Ellie Dudley
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NAAJA board in mass resignation, chair stands down
The head of Australia’s largest Aboriginal legal service, who stood on his pregnant partner’s stomach and slammed her arm in a door, will step down from his role as four other directors leave.
Under fire: super funds going for class action profits
Australia’s largest super funds are investing millions of dollars in both litigation funders and companies they are targeting in court, amid calls for a crackdown on ‘vulture’ firms reaping huge profits from the government’s ‘light-touch’ to class actions.
‘Class actions have strayed from their original purposes’
Scrapping the contingency fee model for class actions would fight the ‘increasing commercialisation’ of class action ‘lawfare’, amid calls for Labor to crack down on litigation funders.
Plibersek ‘must shed light on mine mystery’
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is under pressure to detail all the factors that swayed her controversial decision against a $1bn gold mine in NSW.
Judge on outer for rape-case criticism
NSW Judicial Commission recommended Robert Newlinds, who accused the prosecution office of making ‘lazy’ referrals of baseless rape accusations to court, be stood aside from criminal trials.
Axed gold mine site has ‘cultural significance of Gallipoli’: activist
An Indigenous historian who helped spearhead a campaign that brought down the $1bn McPhillamys gold project said the proposed mine location should be treated with the same respect as the historical sites of ‘Gallipoli and Battle of The Somme’.
Gold mine off, locals to fight heritage law
The company behind a $1bn gold mine vetoed by Tanya Plibersek on Indigenous heritage grounds says it is cancelling the project, as a coalition of central NSW councils prepares to challenge the law.
Dissidents’ role in Plibersek mine call
Tanya Plibersek was persuaded to rule against Regis’s full proposal for a $1bn goldmine after listening to a dissident Aboriginal corporation registered with just 18 members.
Higgins too ill to front court in Reynolds trial
Brittany Higgins has pulled out of giving evidence in the defamation action brought against her by Linda Reynolds in a bombshell that could bring an early end to the proceedings.
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