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Sep 17, 2025
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Habeas is an Australian legal AI startup founded by USYD law dropout Will McCartney, who has recently written an article for the Australian Law Librarian titled "The law as public infrastructure: AI and the end of legal scarcity".
Sep 16, 2025
6 min read
Sue Chrysanthou SC gives 2025 James Merralls Fellowship in Law lecture titled "The Case for Cancelling Cancel Culture", Queensland Courts releases guidelines on use of AI by judicial officers and non-lawyers.
Sep 15, 2025
Special leave is being sought to appeal the decision of R v HCZ [2025] QCA 147 (relating to the murder of Emma Lovell), Gina Rinehart's company Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd identified as contributor to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's legal fund.
Sep 14, 2025
7 min read
Anne Twomey's latest Constitutional Clarion video discusses confusion about the reserve powers of the Governor-General and the relevant precedents in 1975, Clive Palmer human rights complaint referred to QLD Supreme Court, SXSW Sydney next month will feature "AI as judge, jury, and executioner: The ethics of automated sentencing".
Sep 11, 2025
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NSW ODPP announces that an additional 65 full time equivalent positions have been approved for the 25/26 financial year, bringing the overall staff working at the ODPP to more than 1100.
Sep 10, 2025
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Beach J's judgment in Epic Games, Inc v Apple Inc [2025] FCA 900 published online, Clive Palmer’s lawyer Sam Iskander ‘misplaced’ $2.5m worth of gold.
Sep 9, 2025
AFR interviews Emma Covacevich (Chief Executive Partner at Clayton Utz); details of statement of claim in Sam and Brittany Groth proceedings emerge.
Sep 8, 2025
Bruce Lerhmann commences proceedings in the FCA against Commonwealth Special Minister of State Don Farrell and Paul Brereton of the NACC, in [2025] FCA 1092 Perram J draws comparison between pleadings by Coles and Heironymus Bosch’s 1515 triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Sep 7, 2025
Livestream of Erin Patterson's sentencing from 9:30am AEST today, Commissioner of Police v Mary-Jane Liddicoat in NSW Supreme Court today (re Sydney Harbour Bridge anti-establishment rally), National Justice Project and Portable collaborate on "Hear Me Out" tool.
