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Daily wrap  

• Police who investigated Bruce Lehrmann sue Shane Drumgold for $1.42m over critical comments | Australian Capital Territory (ACT) | The Guardian
   

• Victoria moves to protect sexual assault victims from defamation action for reporting crimes | Victoria | The Guardian
   

• King’s Counsel title for senior barristers scrapped as draft legislation passes | The Advertiser [paywall]
   

  • A copy of the bill can be found here - Statutes Amendment (Attorney-General's Portfolio)Bill 2024
     

• Chris Dawson: Ex-teacher’s Dawson’s case attacked as ‘glaringly improbable’ | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
   

• Showdown set with Elon Musk’s X over Sydney church stabbing content | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site (A two day hearing has been tentatively scheduled for 24 - 25 July).
   

• ACM will take no action against lawyer who hosted websites that used AI to alter legitimate news stories | Australian media | The Guardian
   

• Baby Reindeer on repeat: woman guilty of stalking lawyers [The Australian paywall]

  Kobi Langshaw, now barred from coming within 2km of the Perth CBD, was ‘completely infatuated’ with one man while harbouring a hatred for another that ‘bordered on the pathological’
   

Editor’s picks  

• Should a Member of Parliament lose their seat if they defect from their political party? - YouTube

  “The Tasmanian Government has proposed the enactment of a 'stability clause' which would vacate the seat of a Member of Parliament who ceases to be a parliamentary member of the political party that endorsed them at the time of their election. In other countries, this is known as an anti-party-hopping law, or an anti-defection law, or even a 'waka-jumping' law.

  This video discusses the reasons for the enactment of such laws and the serious criticisms of them as anti-democratic measures. It will be followed by another video that looks more closely at the drafting of such laws, their constitutional validity and the problems with their interpretation and application by the courts.”
   

• If AI can do the work of a grad lawyer, what does a grad lawyer do? [AFR paywall]
   

• Artificial Intelligence in Victoria's Courts and Tribunals - Victorian Law Reform Commission

  “The Victorian Law Reform Commission has been asked to make recommendations on legislative reform opportunities and principles to guide the safe use of AI in Victoria’s courts and tribunals.”
   

• Barrister who fell asleep during inquest cleared of misconduct | Barristers | The Guardian [UK]
   

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