New judgments
Fri Nov 04 2022Bamfield & Secretary, Department of Communities and Justice [2022] FedCFamC1A 35 - application of the Hague Convention to an Indigenous Australian child
Guest & Anor v Guest [2022] UKSC 27 - "One of the principal functions of equity is to put right injustice to which the law is otherwise blind, by restraining the rigid application of legal rules where their implementation would be unconscionable."
Karpik v Carnival plc (The Ruby Princess) (Evidential Ruling) [2022] FCA 1318 - evidence, objection to tender of scientific journal articles
LJTZ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2022] FCA 1209 - migration, "nature and scope of the Minister's fact finding task in determining what the national interest"
Secretary, Department of Communities and Justice v KH & Ors [2022] NSWCA 221 - "Assuming such a power existed, the order is nevertheless unfortunate in that any exercise of parental responsibilities is hard enough without having to interpret and apply a 195-page decision in doing so."
The Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Lismore v GLJ [2022] NSWCA 78 - permanent stay of a civil claim over sexual offences because the alleged perpetrator has died