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Send us Fan Mail Ten decisions in the Federal Courts edition for Tuesday 13 October 2026, all from the Federal Court of Australia. The opening story: the strike pay prohibition in s 470(1) of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) turns on a connection between the entitlement to a payment and the performance of, or availability for, work during protected industrial action, not on timing; an allowance for the hardships of remote work, reciprocal with rostered duties, could be withheld for a stoppage, bu...
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Send us Fan Mail Twelve decisions from three courts in the New South Wales edition of Thursday 22 October 2026, four of them headnoted. In a bank's institutional negligence case over a scam transfer, discovery of what the bank knew is confined to institutional knowledge up to the transaction date, and the customer must plead, looking forward, the procedure the bank should have had before broader categories can be framed. An all reasonable endeavours obligation to relet requires no steps when ...
Send us Fan Mail Twelve decisions in the Federal Courts edition for Thursday 22 October 2026: one from the Full Court of the Federal Court and eleven from the Federal Court of Australia, three with Judicial Ledger headnotes. The opening story: the remedies judgment in Epic Games v Apple, where the Court held that the s 80 injunction power can restrain otherwise lawful conduct with a sufficient nexus to a contravention, and that relief against a global platform, though the Act reaches conduct ...
Send us Fan Mail Eight headnoted appellate decisions from five courts in the edition of Thursday 22 October 2026, with the Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria editions of the same day folded in. The home invasion extension of self-defence and a drug that relaxes; consent to a lawyer's removal from the roll; grounds that were never in a judicial review application; identity discovery and the desire to sue; amending a class action group costs order; judicial review that ...
Send us Fan Mail The Petal's New Zealand edition for Thursday 22 October 2026 carries 18 decisions newly reported from the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court. Nine at desk length: why the Crown could not fund the Māori Wardens around the councils the Act puts in control; a Crown proposal to five iwi that created no legitimate expectation; no third category of lawyer misconduct; a Calderbank offer on the eve of filing; a liquidation stayed on a paid debt; pleading a portfoli...
Send us Fan Mail The Petal: Apex — International. Nine decisions of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, from 27 July to 17 September 2026 (The Petal's UKSC Editions of 31 August and 17 September 2026), reported from London by Rupert, with commentary for home from Harriet (Sydney) and Koro (Wellington), and a Criminal desk cameo from Rick. The theme is reach: across a border, into a patent pool, ahead of recognition, and past the parties to a contract. Overseas decisions are persuasive, n...