Overview

• Giggle for Girls and its CEO lodged an amended notice of appeal introducing a new ground shortly before Monday’s hearing, but the Full Court refused it.
• Senior counsel Noel Hutley argued that special measures may lawfully disadvantage other groups to advance substantive equality for women.
• Lawyers for the Sex Discrimination Commissioner warned that permitting a special measures exemption could shield invidious discrimination against protected groups.
• Roxanne Tickle is challenging the classification of her exclusion as indirect discrimination and seeks to increase her damages from A$10,000 to A$40,000.
• The four-day Full Court hearing continues in Sydney before Justices Melissa Perry, Geoffrey Kennett and Wendy Abraham.