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Send us Fan Mail Your Court of Appeal brief for 25 June 2026 — six decisions from the Full Federal Court and the appeal courts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, on a single theme: proof and its limits. The word allegedly will not always save a broadcaster, and a defamation case dies with the person who brought it. There is no general right to a jury for State off...

Send us Fan Mail Your Federal Courts brief for 25 June 2026 — three decisions from the Federal Court of Australia, on a single theme: currency and candour. An out-of-date file can sink a visa decision; the timing of a challenge can sink the challenge; and the lawyer who asks a court for a freezing order in secret carries a heavy duty to be frank. The principles, not the noise. In this episode: • W...

Send us Fan Mail Your Tribunals brief for 25 June 2026 — three decisions from the civil and administrative tribunals of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, on a single theme: stay inside the lines the statute draws. You cannot use one review to sneak an attack on a decision you were never allowed to challenge. An internal appeal is not a second go at the whole case. And a substitute...

Send us Fan Mail Your Federal Courts brief for 23 June 2026 — four decisions from the Federal Court of Australia, on a single theme: courts protecting the integrity of a process. A corporate rescue cannot become a hiding place for the people who ran the company down; a fresh-hearing appeal means you start again and lead real evidence, not a dictionary; a tribunal owes you notice of the issue, not...

Send us Fan Mail Your Tribunals brief for 23 June 2026 — five decisions from the civil and administrative tribunals of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, on a single theme: fairness, and limits. A tribunal cannot decide your costs without reading what you filed; a power of attorney can be reset when the attorney falters; a rent rise is tested by the law of its day; vilifi...

Send us Fan Mail Your Court of Appeal brief for 23 June 2026 — six decisions from the Full Federal Court and the appeal courts of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, on a single theme: pressure, and proof. A threat dressed up as a business offer is enough to unwind the deal that follows; a company can fund a director's defence only by an express advance, never a bare...

Send us Fan Mail The Court of Appeal edition of The Petal for 18 June 2026 — four decisions from the Full Federal Court, New South Wales and Victoria, on the edges of review and the price of process. When must a tribunal go and find evidence for itself? What part of a coroner's work can you actually appeal? When does a question to an accused cross into unfairness? And when does an order that...

Send us Fan Mail The Federal Court edition of The Petal for 18 June 2026 — three decisions from a busy bench, atop a heavy insolvency day. A tax agent struck off, and whether the regulator went too far. A migration decision on a subtle but important error — treating a consequence the law intends as if it counted for nothing. And a sharp reminder that you cannot use a transfer application to choose...

Send us Fan Mail The Tribunals edition of The Petal for 18 June 2026 — three decisions from NCAT and the Victorian tribunal, where most people actually meet the law. When a tribunal can lift a compulsory treatment order, and the human rights that bear on it. A clean roadmap for running an internal appeal. And a planning decision about calling a thing what it really is. A content note: the first ma...

Send us Fan Mail The Court of Appeal edition of The Petal for 17 June 2026 — six decisions from New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, gathered on one thread: proof. Prove every integer of the counterfactual you rely on; prove incompetence beyond reasonable doubt; and never let a court reject your evidence by surprise. A content note: two of today's matters concern serious offending...

Send us Fan Mail The Federal Court edition of The Petal for 17 June 2026 — three decisions, three lessons every litigator can use. You are not punished for contesting a penalty, but you forgo the discount for owning it. Rehabilitation achieved in detention counts, though its untested nature can be weighed. And without-prejudice privilege protects real compromise, not idle willingness to talk. In t...

Send us Fan Mail The Tribunals edition of The Petal for 17 June 2026 — four decisions from NCAT, VCAT, QCAT and the WA State Administrative Tribunal, where most people actually meet the law. Fairness means adapting to the person, not treating everyone the same. Justify your refusal of a good settlement offer. Check the tribunal can actually hear you. And an impossible rule at the counter may still...

Send us Fan Mail A special High Court edition for 17 June 2026 — four decisions handed down together, all aired. Two on when the State answers for the conduct of its officers: a police negligence landmark on the duty of care owed to a crowd, and exemplary damages against the State for unlawful force used on children in detention. Then the first High Court ruling on whether a crypto product that pa...

Send us Fan Mail A superior-courts daily for 15 June 2026, merging two Petal editions — the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court — because the day's best decisions sit across both. The lead pair turns on corporate rescue: when a commercial arbitration clause collides with a deed of company arrangement, only some matters are arbitrable; and the creditors who tried to freeze a rescue learned t...

Send us Fan Mail A Tribunals daily for 15 June 2026 — NCAT, ACAT, VCAT, QCAT and WASAT, the places where most Australians actually meet the law. Nine decisions, five aired. The lead is a costs trap: an adverse factual finding you don't appeal will bind you in the costs fight that follows. Plus a modern question about renting a spare room, where silence about a coming sale can be misleading co...

Send us Fan Mail A weekly run through the Federal Court of Australia for 12–14 June 2026 — twelve decisions reported, five aired. The lead holds that a Territory statutory power to enter Aboriginal land and muster straying stock operates concurrently with the Commonwealth land rights scheme and is not the grant of a licence or interest. Plus: the general-protections threshold for a "complaint...

Send us Fan Mail A weekly run through Australia's tribunals — NCAT, VCAT, QCAT and the Trade Marks Office — for 12–14 June 2026, ten decisions reported, five aired. The lead confirms a consent order is a real, appealable decision but can be unwound only on contract-voidability grounds with evidence, and there is no error of law in not deciding an issue nobody raised. Plus: consumer guarantees...

Send us Fan Mail A High Court of Australia special, looking back over May 2026 — five decisions, with the Crown's rights set against the Crown's freedoms. The Court dismantles "derivative Crown immunity" as a doctrine; reads down the autonomous-sanctions regulations so they don't reach legal advice toward a constitutional challenge; settles that the "reasonably practi...

Send us Fan Mail A High Court of Australia special, looking back over June 2026 — two headline decisions, liberty and money. The Court closes the door on a good-faith immunity for unlawful executive detention, confirming that legislation later held invalid never conferred authority and opening a damages path for those detained under the overruled rule; and it settles the long-running Division 7A q...

Send us Fan Mail A New Zealand current-awareness special, covering the Supreme Court and High Court for 12–14 June 2026 — twenty-six decisions reported, eight aired. The Supreme Court rewrites how counter-intuitive evidence may be run in sexual cases (educative only, never diagnostic, with a mandatory jury direction) and resets sentencing for "aged-out" offenders around a notional Youth...

Send us Fan Mail A weekly run through Australia's intermediate appellate courts for 12–14 June 2026 — twelve decisions reported, five aired. The lead holds that the migration character test's statutory disregard of concurrency lets a decision-maker weigh the total sum of sentences a criminal court ran concurrently. Plus: a construction-contract ruling that a notice of intention to termin...

Send us Fan Mail A High Court of Australia special, looking back over March 2026 — six decisions, and one thread: power and its limits. The Court extends a landmark constitutional principle to non-custodial restrictions on liberty and strikes down the monitoring-and-curfew bridging-visa regime; settles how NSW aggregate sentencing reaches Commonwealth offences with mandatory minimums; warns that t...

Send us Fan Mail A High Court of Australia special, looking back over April 2026 — three decisions: a sovereign's shield, an election-funding regime struck down whole, and a sharply divided bench on tendency evidence. The Court settles for the first time at apex level that ratifying the New York Convention is not, by itself, a waiver of foreign State immunity; strikes down an entire Part of V...

Send us Fan Mail A High Court of Australia special, looking back over February 2026. Two landmark decisions: the Court overrules a 23-year-old authority and reopens institutional responsibility for historic child abuse; and it settles how a conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office can be charged and proved. Produced by BarNet OpenLaw, the creators of JADE, from The Petal. The voices in thi...

Send us Fan Mail A special weekend edition covering three Petal editions for 5–7 June 2026: Court of Appeal, Federal Courts and Tribunals. Forty-four decisions; nine aired. The home building contract that closed the door on the builder's restitution claim, the national-security privilege test restated, the tribunal told it cannot mistake vulnerability for incapacity, and another strata battle...