Abusive WIN worker resigns
A WIN gross sales worker has resigned following a Crikey tip into his now-deleted abusive social media accounts.
An X account that seemed to be linked to the worker abused sporting and media personalities courting again to October 2023.
Following questions from Crikey to WIN, the worker’s X account was deleted, and a associated Instagram account, which referenced WIN within the deal with, was scrubbed to take away the reference to WIN and renamed to the identical deal with because the lifeless X account.
A WIN spokesperson instructed Crikey: “WIN commenced the investigation promptly after changing into conscious of the social posts by an worker. The person concerned has resigned and not works at WIN.”
The account additionally made numerous derogatory and unfavourable remarks in relation to girls’s sport, and, in an obvious reference to allegations of sexual assault reported in January towards former WWE CEO Vince McMahon, requested whether or not “the girl was making it as much as attempt to get a payout”.
Crikey contacted the worker for remark forward of publishing the unique tip. He didn’t reply, however blocked us on one social media website used to contact him.
Dyson Heydon’s e book membership
Disgraced former Excessive Courtroom choose Dyson Heydon has penned a brand new piece for conservative journal Quadrant. Authorized eagles will bear in mind Heydon’s notorious 2002 broadside towards the risks of judicial activism at a Quadrant dinner, revealed slightly below a 12 months later by the conservative publication. Justinian revealed a much less sanitised model of the speech in 2004, which included cracks at Alistair Nicholson, then chief justice of the Household Courtroom, in addition to Justices Fitzgerald, Einfeld and Kirby, the latter of whom Heydon would be part of on the Excessive Courtroom in 2003. Heydon additionally spoke at some size in that speech concerning the significance of probity (one wonders the probity in allegedly sexually harassing one’s associates).
So what’s he scripting this time? It’s a e book evaluate of Beneath the Southern Cross: On the lookout for Australia within the twenty first Century, a collection of essays by the likes of former Liberal MP Kevin Andrews, perennial Liberal candidate Georgina Downer, No campaigner Gary Johns and human rights commissioner Lorraine Finlay.
Heydon summarises these essays as stemming “from the defeat of the 2023 referendum, a consequence which just about all of the contributors favour”. He goes on to say the essays “possess liveliness and vitality”.
“They right an unduly pessimistic view of race relations right here,” he writes.
‘With nice respect, beginning at shadows’
Transferring to present judges, and the authorized career is presently gripped by a vicious confrontation between two of probably the most high-profile judges in New South Wales. Federal Courtroom Justice Ian Jackman (older brother of actor Hugh) goes forwards and backwards with NSW Chief Justice Andrew Bell in a debate over whether or not the usage of phrases like “phrases to the impact of” have been acceptable in written affidavits.
It sounds dry, however as one Sydney solicitor tells Crikey: “This isn’t some area of interest authorized factor — that is two judges preventing like hell.”
In a latest Federal Courtroom judgment discussing the problem, Jackman mentioned Bell was “asserting a supervisory energy that his honour doesn’t have”, and was “within the current context … with nice respect, beginning at shadows”.
“With nice respect, [Bell] seems concurrently to have created and criticised authorized uncertainty”.
The talk started over remarks made by Jackman in a case final 12 months, criticising the apply of utilizing the phrase “phrases to the impact of”, a longstanding authorized apply in New South Wales. However as The Australian has reported, “Chief Justice Bell has mentioned there’s ‘no significant distinction’ between a witness providing their ‘finest recollection’ of occasions whereas giving verbal proof, and that recollection being written as direct speech in an affidavit.”
We’re positive this case will proceed.
