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Appeals court upholds win for landowners in bushfire mass tort
The family of the late pastoralist Thomas Brickworth is on the hook for damage caused by a 2021 bushfire, after an appeals court found it was reasonable to conclude that the fire originated from a vegetation heap that smouldered for months before catching fire. 
Legal privilege stands despite transcript’s production in earlier suit
A judge has upheld a legal privilege claim over a transcript of an interview between a solicitor and a priest in an abuse case, despite the transcript's production in another case by an insurer without an assertion of privilege.