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Fri Jul 14 2017Monkey see, Monkey Sue PETA and Naruto, a free-living crested macaque have sued photographer David Slater and the San Francisco- based self-publishing company Blurb, which published a book called Wildlife Personalities that includes the monkey selfies, for copyright infringement.
'Like Abbott and Turnbull writ small': Law Society locked in Supreme Court fight The NSW Law Society – the representative body for the state's 30,000 solicitors – is in turmoil as its junior vice-president takes it to court to head off a bid to oust her from the position.
Solicitor who pleaded guilty to fraud confesses to pocketing criminal proceeds A high-profile Brisbane solicitor - Tim Meehan, who acted for Daniel Morcombe’s killer, Brett Cowan - is set to be jailed for fraud and has confessed to pocketing criminal proceeds as part of an alleged scheme that prosecutors said netted his law firm “almost certainly well in excess of $600,000” in secret cash payments from clients.
Man sues over missing 90s Lotto ticket David Owen Renshaw told the Sydney Supreme Court on Wednesday a shop attendant threw away the $3.3 million winning ticket, and it has been haunting him for 20 years. Mr Renshaw says he saw the words 'provisional winner' appear when he handed in his ticket at Granville Railway Station newsagency in the week following the September 23, 1997 draw. 'I know what I saw, it has been playing on my mind for 20 years,' he said.