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• Judge criticises lawyers acting for boy accused of murder for filing misleading AI-created documents | Law (Australia) | The Guardian
   

• Legal watchdog faces review [The Australian paywall]

  Perth’s legal community has forced a historic inquiry into the state’s powerful legal regulator amid claims it disproportionately focuses on smaller firms and practitioners.
   

  • Inquiry into the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia 
     

• 'Systemic failure by Mercer Super,' ASIC alleges, as it takes $70b fund to court - ABC News
   

• ‘Footie players in town and want bags’: pilot who flew for Outback Wrangler denies supplying cocaine, court hears | Northern Territory | The Guardian
   

  • Pilot in Matt Wright trial denies lying to police about cause of fatal crash - ABC News
     

• 25-165MR NAB and AFSH penalised $15.5 million for failing customers facing financial hardship | ASIC
   

  • Australian Securities and Investments Commission v National Australia Bank [2025] FCA 947
     

• Midwife charged over death of baby after alleged homebirth complications - ABC News
   

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• The Challenge of AI for Law Reform and the Legal Profession | ALRC

  Address to the Australian Law Forum 2025 by ALRC President the Hon Justice Mordy Bromberg, 14 August 2025
   

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  The comings and goings of the NSW Supreme Court have become an open book as lift repairs create queues down the street outside an ageing Sydney law courts building.
   

• Court intrigue [Capital Brief paywall]

  Justice Jacqueline Gleeson is shaping as a High Court swing vote, while Justice James Edelman seems content in his role as the bench's soloist.
   

• 2026 Commonwealth Law Conference - 27 Feb 2026 (Sydney)

  The Law Council of Australia’s Federal Dispute Resolution Section invites you to attend the fourth annual Commonwealth Law Conference.
   

• Corrs chief Gavin MacLaren’s (other) $6m side hustle goes dark [AFR paywall]

  The CEO has made a pretty penny investing in a well-connected start-up, but evidence of his firm’s association has disappeared.
   

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