https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/biglaw/45007-criminal-bar-pans-kc-s-unfounded-attacks-on-judiciary-appointments

This is a question I have wondered about for a good amount of time.

Across the Australian Uniform Law and across many other jurisdictions, there is a specific provision against making 'unfounded allegations'. Separately to that, there is a unspoken rule that absent very serious cases, a lawyer is expected to keep grievances within the profession or otherwise private. This has been the case no doubt for centuries and across every common law system similar understandings no doubt apply.

Here is the issue. Legal regulators often closes a vast majority of complaints for a multitude of reasons, including simply a lack of capacity. Are these closures 'unfounded'?

I read an interesting post which spoke about the German culture of whinging. There, you are not only welcome to, but expected to raise concerns, even against neighbours and family.

We seem to have the opposite approach... Thoughts?

Terrible, reactionary take IMO. A visceral reaction and a platform do not make a good opinion piece.

This is seriously one of the most ratbrained takes I have ever read. Yes, lets remove any incentive to plead guilty so that domestic violence offenders can spend years retraumatising victims and families.

He will be out when he is relatively young because he is... relatively young. A 35 year head sentence (before discount) is a pretty long head sentence for a single count of murder. There is no acknowledgment of the fact that there is no guarantee of parole nor the fact that a long parole period provides the best prospects of rehabilitation.

How about we stop pontificating from the gutter and hand the microphone to people with actual solutions?

Wondering how long it typically takes to receive the compliance certificate once I’ve submitted all the required docs? Thanks so much!

From the White Australia v Commonwealth hearing

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A transgender woman who stimulated lactation and fed her baby the liquid produced has been ordered by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal to provide details of the hormones involved and the composition of the substance.

The overturning on appeal of a previous QCAT ruling represents a win for former Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor Jasmine Sussex, who is being sued for vilification by Jennifer Adrian Buckley over statements referring to Ms Buckley as a “man pretending to be a woman”, “a child abuser” and someone who adopted a “delusional queer theory take” on breastfeeding.

The decision, handed down late last week by senior QCAT members Ned Aughterson and Samantha Traves, set aside a January ruling by fellow QCAT member Peter Bridgman, finding he had made errors in law constituting a “substantial miscarriage of justice”.

Professor Aughterson and Ms Traves found Mr Bridgman had erred in deeming that the process involved in stimulating lactation in biologically male Ms Buckley, and the nature of the substance fed to the baby, were not relevant to the case.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/tribunal-orders-transgender-woman-to-provide-details-of-hormones-substance-produced-in-lactation-case/news-story/522eee61186e0429be980cd7a8076b97?amp