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A legal specific large language model has been created
SaulLM-7B (named after the US TV series Better Call Saul) is the first large language model designed specifically for legal text comprehension and generation
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Judge asks if Higgins should be recalled to give evidence [The Australian paywall]
The judge in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case has asked if Brittany Higgins should be recalled to give evidence over alleged ‘false representations’ in her $2.4m compensation payout.
Submissions, including those addressing whether Higgins should be recalled, were uploaded to the public court file on Friday - Lehrmann v Network Ten and Ors: Online File
Legal fears over controversial theatre show [Herald Sun paywall]
Legal figures have raised concerns a performance at this year’s Rising Festival in which an artist will be drugged unconscious and penetrated on stage could be considered rape.
Melbourne Law Professor Jeremy Gans discusses the application of Victorian rape and sexual penetration laws to the performance on X (twitter) here.
Court indicates jailed paedophile will 'most likely' win appeal because she is a woman - ABC News
High Court: Government sweats on critical new court challenge on immigration detainees
Suppression orders: Victoria leads the way as Australia’s secret state [SMH paywall]
Accused sex offenders, killers and kidnappers have all used the court system to try to hide their identities, and it’s a balancing act some lawyers argue we don’t always get right.
Brisbane tenant backed by Greens loses legal battle to stay in home [SMH paywall]
The owner of the modest house on a large block wants to sell the property to help pay for his 101-year-old mother to move into aged care.
a copy of the decision is here - Cridland v M1 Real Estate Pty Ltd [2024] QCAT 103 (15 March 2024)
Salt Creek backpacker kidnapper files $60K defamation lawsuit against daughter | The Advertiser
Editor’s picks
A pioneering Large Language Model for Law - SaulLM-7B
“In this paper, we introduce SaulLM-7B, a large language model (LLM) tailored for the legal domain. With 7 billion parameters, SaulLM-7B is the first LLM designed explicitly for legal text comprehension and generation. Leveraging the Mistral 7B architecture as its foundation, SaulLM-7B is trained on an English legal corpus of over 30 billion tokens. SaulLM-7B exhibits state-of-the-art proficiency in understanding and processing legal documents. Additionally, we present a novel instructional fine-tuning method that leverages legal datasets to further enhance SaulLM-7B's performance in legal tasks. SaulLM-7B is released under the MIT License.”
In this remote Groote Eylandt community court, Aboriginal elders sit next to the judge - ABC News
Will we have a referendum on four year terms for the Australian Parliament? -Anne Twomey - YouTube
Back to basics: Inadvertent disclosure - Law Society Journal
Today’s livestreams:
The trial in the matters of Andrianakis v Uber Technologies and Salem v Uber Technologies before Justice Nichols of the Supreme Court of Victoria will be live streamed from 10.30am here - Live stream of trial for Uber group proceedings | The Supreme Court of Victoria. Background to the matter here - Uber 'came to our shores, illegally, like pirates', class action lead plaintiff says - ABC News
A livestream of a hearing in Transport Workers' Union of Australia v Qantas Airways Limited before Justice Lee will be available here from 10:15 AEDT today.
Selden Society lecture series Australia: Sir Charles Lilley and the Grimley Affair on Apple Podcasts
“Sir Charles Lilley (1827–97) was a towering figure in politics and law in colonial Queensland, but his final years were dogged by controversy. In October 1892, Sir Charles announced his intention to resign as second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland (1879–93). The catalyst was his behaviour throughout the 57-day civil trial of Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Co Ltd v Grimley. Leading up to his resignation, Sir Charles increasingly eschewed norms of judicial detachment. Grimley was the final straw. This lecture examines the Grimley affair and considers the extent to which, along with his behaviour in other proceedings of the time, it brought into question Sir Charles’ ethics as a judge.
Podcast - NSW Law Society Just Chat - Episode 36 - Jamelle Wells
“As the Senior Court Reporter for the ABC, Jamelle Wells has a privileged point of view on the mechanisms of justice in New South Wales. She has seen both the most thrilling, and most mundane court sessions, but always kept her curiosity. In this episode Jamelle reminisces with ex court reporter, Amy Dale, and talks about what she learned about Australia's justice system researching her new book, The Outback Court Reporter.”
Societe Civile et Agricole du Vieux Chateau Certan v Kreglinger (Australia) Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 248 (wine trademark/passing off dispute)
Beach J at [122] “Fourth, during the trial there was an inordinately high level of evidence that was given from the Bar table. Perhaps this is explicable given the nature of the subject matter and the fact that counsel for the parties were drawn from the fashionable and expensive end of the Commercial Bar. Further, it seemed to be suggested that judicial notice could be taken as to the characteristics of some of the products and where they could be purchased and consumed. Unsurprisingly I declined that invitation.”
Canada's top court criticised after referring to female rape victim as 'person with a vagina'
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