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Unlicensed lawyer busted over $100k Qld legal practice [The Chronicle paywall]
A man who acted as a lawyer despite not being admitted in Australia made $100,000, a court has heard.
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The Federal Court of Australia is set to move its CourtPath case and document management system to run in Azure, paving the way to augment it with cloud-native AI services.
This article reconsiders the method of constitutional interpretation employed by the Australian High Court, in light of the lack of formal amendments to the Australian Constitution. The Court eschews any power to change the meaning of the Constitution, including to keep pace with contemporary needs and values. That is in large part because section 128 of the Constitution vests power in the people and their representatives to change the Constitution – and thus it is said, it would be undemocratic for the Court to change the Constitution for them. But section 128 has fallen into desuetude: constitutional referendums are rare, and rarely succeed. This requires a reassessment of the values served by the interpretive method of the High Court, though this article concludes that this method remains normatively sound. It does serve democracy – though only in a thin sense of that term. More importantly, it preserves the institutional legitimacy of the High Court.
2025 is a landmark year for Australian privacy law. The new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy came into effect in June this year. This could be a breakthrough providing you with a better way to protect your privacy interests through the court system. Big Ideas digs deep into its origins, its inspirations, and its potential future. Speakers: Emeritus Professor Barbara McDonald Professor of Law, University of Sydney Law School; The Hon Justice Peter Applegarth AM KC Former barrister and Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland Mark Burdon (host) Professor of Law, Queensland University of Technology, QUT's Digital Media Research Centre.
[1] The appellant describes herself as a 'living, breathing, sentient' woman.
[2] That much may be accepted.
Judge Ellen Skinner of the NSW District Court, who is also President of the Children’s Court who was speaking only for herself and not the wider judiciary, Lander & Rogers partner and technology lawyer Matt McMillan and ethicist Peter Collins.
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On this episode of The Callover, we are joined by leading wills and estates expert Dr John de Groot AM to discuss the importance of succession law, not only for our clients, but also for ourselves.
On 16 September 2025 the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released its long awaited report on the issue of genocide in relation to the Israeli military operations in Gaza since October 2023. The report is the most authoritative assessment of this issue to date and will remain so until the International Court of Justice rules on the matter, not before 2027. The seminar will provide a forum to learn about the Commission's report from one of its authors, Commissioner Chris Sidoti. Chris will be in conversation with Professor Ben Saul, Professor of International Law and UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in countering terrorism who will also be highlighting the legal issues arising from the report.
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