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False file notes, false imprisonment, and a plea for employment: What’s hot in law this week (28 Aug–1 Sept)

The past week has seen further developments in some of the most high-profile national proceedings. Here is your weekly round-up of the biggest stories for Australia’s legal profession.

user iconLawyers Weekly • 02 September 2023 • Big Law
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For the week from 28 August to 1 September, these were the 10 most-read stories on Lawyers Weekly (in case you missed them):

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  1. Qld principal lawyer suspended for false file notes
A Queensland principal lawyer who falsified file notes and dishonestly instructed his solicitor has been suspended.

  1. Outgoing DPP Shane Drumgold launches proceedings against ACT Board of Inquiry
Shane Drumgold, the ACT’s outgoing director of Public Prosecutions, has commenced legal proceedings against a board of inquiry that made “several serious findings of misconduct” against him.

  1. Judge, Commonwealth to pay man $300k for false imprisonment
A federal judge, the state of Queensland, and the Commonwealth have been ordered to pay just under $310,000 in damages for the false imprisonment of a man on an “invalid” order.

  1. WA lawyer hit with ‘aggressive, intimidating’ allegations
A client’s fiery allegations that a Western Australian lawyer had been “aggressive, intimidating or abusive” have been dismissed.

  1. Law student caught with guns makes plea for employment
An aspiring solicitor convicted of possessing unregistered guns has asked a tribunal to approve his employment at a boutique firm.

  1. Junior lawyers should avoid ‘job hopping’
The next generation of leaders in law may have been increasingly predisposed to ‘job hopping’ in recent years and for myriad reasons. However, recruiters say that such practitioners should be wary of vocational movements too frequently – particularly in the current climate.

  1. Dreamworld class action settles for $26m
A shareholder class action against Ardent Leisure over a fatal incident at Dreamworld has settled for $26 million.

  1. Ben Roberts-Smith to appeal Australia’s biggest defamation case
Ben Roberts-Smith will appeal Australia’s biggest defamation case in the hopes of overturning a finding that he murdered four men.

  1. Media cautioned for defence in Lehrmann defamation case
A Federal Court judge has cautioned the media defendants in former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial against running multiple defences alongside the new public interest defence.

  1. ABC’s public interest defence not freedom to ‘mislead’, barrister says
High-profile defamation barrister Sue Chrysanthou slammed ABC’s reporting about a former special forces soldier and said its public interest defence does not give it the right to “mislead” readers.

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