New judgments
Fri Aug 19 2022Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Patents [2022] HCA 29 - patents, electronic gaming machines
Athans v The Queen [2022] SASCA 71 - "at the risk of being seen as stuck in Dickensian times, I do not think this case, with the peculiarities of the Snapchat App, is the appropriate vehicle to redefine what amounts to a photograph and therefore a document, for the purpose of the common law"
Google LLC v Defteros [2022] HCA 27 - defamation, publication, Google is not a publisher
Massoud v Nationwide News Pty Ltd; Massoud v Fox Sports Australia Pty Ltd [2022] NSWCA 150 - defamation, offensive language
Nathanson v Minister for Home Affairs & Anor [2022] HCA 26 - administrative law, judicial review, jurisdictional error, "The legal rules concerning materiality... are not presently in a state of blinding lucidity"
R v Perrin [2022] NSWCCA 170 - construction of section 58 of Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) : "existing sentence" is determined at the time the "new sentence" is being imposed, not at the time the "new sentence" commences
Tu'uta Katoa v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs & Anor [2022] HCA 28 - immigration, visas, review of cancellation decision