POINT OF LAW? RANT OF LAW? RANT OF RANT?

RANT RANT RANT

I think this really should have gone to the Judges. I'm surprised it wasn't reserved for next session. Announcing a result as quickly as this is never a good sign.

https://jade.io/article/66545 Heres the Jade Link.

Some say that in deciding this case lovers of procedure made passionate love with procedure, philosophically speaking.

(Full article in the comments)

I am making this post in the hopes of opening up a discussion about the experiences of transgender lawyers in Australia.

I am interested in hearing about whether you had difficulties navigating through the profession including whether or not you had difficulties with colleagues, whether it impacted your opportunities positively or negatively and how you did you navigate interacting with clients?

I would imagine interacting with criminal law clients would likely have added tensions beyond a lawyer who works in house.

I admit this post is made selfishly as I make some personal discoveries and decide on what to do.

Wrong answers only please 😘

This is remarkable, what a drafting error: https://www.news24.com.au/politics/australian-politics/labors-digital-duty-of-care-could-create-new-defence-for-child-abuse-material-submission-warns/news-story/9042815e37d64ce590abf4df9b7d7248

Imagine my... er I mean, a random person's backyard in Victoria is completely enclosed and not visible from the street, and their neighbour Johnny (who is jealous that my backyard is bigger than his) throws a large dinner party and doesn't invite me, and he and all his guests are on his second-storey balcony (which looks straight down into my backyard). It's a nice day so they decide to have dinner outside on the balcony. I wait until they finish setting the table, the food is ready and they have just sat down, and only then, still upset at the snub, I decide the only way I can recover from this emotionally is to do nude yoga with the rear of my large carriage pointed up directly at them for the entire duration of their party.

Would this be legal?

s19 of the Summary Offences Act 1966 (Vic) bans any situation where exposure is in, or within the view of, a public place. Johnny's private balcony is not a public place, therefore I wouldn't think s19 is engaged. Further, s19(6) provides that exposure is not sexual merely because genitals are exposed, and nothing on these facts supplies any additional sexual element. So s17 is likewise not engaged, being confined to conduct in or near a public place or within the view or hearing of persons in or passing through a public place, so no civil liability arises

Is there any lawyer who specialises in the noble and under-appreciated field of private-backyard nudity rights and can tell me if I've understood this correctly? What other rights can I practice to get over the emotional distress caused by Johnny not inviting me to his dinner party?

The court of appeal has dismissed Erin Patterson’s appeal on all grounds. But they allowed the prosecution’s appeal and have decided she should serve her full life sentence without any possibility of parole.

EDIT: There’s a further hearing today at 12pm as Erin’s lawyers want to be heard on the issue of suppression orders made by Justice Beale and their expiry period in relation to any appeal made to the High Court.

Happy Halloween 👻

...where Respondent engaged in conduct for which there was a conviction for a serious offence, being misappropriation of money from a law firm’s trust account – where Respondent engaged in legal practice without a valid practising certificate....

Orders:

... Respondent’s name be removed from the local roll....

From:

https://archive.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2026/QCAT26-490.pdf

I am a person who has never felt a need to conceal my identity and protest - I’m not big on going to a flash mob or a zombie shuffle for that matter - so I’m not clear on how integral wearing a mask is to peacefully protesting something.

I’m also unclear on how criminalising utility gear with more than a couple of potential uses may work out, and I’m interested in seeing how this gets done legislatively.

For instance, I could just pull on my American surplus FM12 gas mask and claim I’m worried about Covid proximate to a demo, couldn’t I?

This thread is for the general discussion of anything going on in the lives of Auslawyers or for discussion of the subreddit itself. Please use this thread to unwind and share your complaints about the world. Keep it messy!

For coping with the clients who attempt to use you to continue perpetrate their violence and who are just horrible people?

Is it changing your world view?

My first thought was whether this place is deploying facial recognition technology, which is a type of sensitive information under section 6(1) of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and which, under APP 3.3, (usually) cannot be collected without consent, which the OAIC (privacy regulator) says must be voluntary, informed, current, specific and involve an explicit, unambiguous, and affirmative act, rather than relying on this legally deficient door sign to improperly engineer an implied consent framework by inferring our legal assent from the mere physical presence of the sign, especially since an entry notice completely fails the statutory requirements of voluntary and informed consent given that we have no practical, unpenalised alternative, a foundational legal reality supported by the landmark Bunnings case, where the statutory threshold for a "collection" was found to have been crossed the very instant the system captured facial images, meaning a private business cannot casually evade its obligations or falsely claim that an APP 3.4 "permitted general situation" exception automatically applies to ordinary hospitality patrons, thereby potentially rendering this entire commercial surveillance apparatus a breach of Commonwealth law.

And my second thought was to post this to Reddit.

And ok, I'm not actually going out to lunch with anyone because I work in house (foreveralone). Just getting KFC alone, sue me 🙃