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Former Supreme Court judge dies in tractor accident
Fatal tractor accident month after judges retirement, Lehrmann given until end of the week to file amended notice of appeal, Lee J speaks at Piddington Society conference
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“Mr Blue retired last month after servicing the state's highest court for 13 years.”
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Justice Michael Lee told a lawyers’ conference that despite laws aimed at increasing transparency, courts were moving in the opposite direction.
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Handa & Mallick [2024] FedCFamC2F 957 (19 July 2024)
[7] When the matter returned to court, I asked Mr B if the list of authorities had been provided using artificial intelligence. He informed me the list had been prepared from LEAP, being a legal software package, as I understand it, used for legal practice management and other purposes. I asked if LEAP relies on artificial intelligence. He indicated that it does, answering “there is an artificial intelligence for LEAP.” I foreshadowed making procedural orders later in the day, requiring Mr B to provide an explanation as to what had occurred. Mr B clarified this afternoon that he prepared the list of authorities and not Ms Aus Lawyers.
[8] I informed the parties and their legal representatives this morning that as a concern had arisen in relation to the veracity of information provided in the list of authorities, a concern had in turn been raised in relation to the competency and ethics of Mr B….
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Chen v Chu - NSW Caselaw
[262] In the context of their submissions on credit, the plaintiffs made reference to Kane’s Hire Pty Ltd v Anderson Aviation Australia Pty Ltd [2023] FCA 381 which is one of a trilogy of decisions [20] of Jackman J in the Federal Court of Australia in which His Honour criticised the long-standing practice in this State of using direct speech to recount conversations, usually prefaced with the words that the conversation was “to the following effect”.[263] His Honour expressed the view that evidence in this form is ethically problematic, as well as concealing the true nature and quality of the witness’s memory or conveying a false impression of that memory.
[264] Contrary to His Honour, I see nothing ethically problematic about this practice. I consider it to be salutary.
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Judgments will be delivered in Attorney-General for the State of Tasmania v Casimaty; Director of Public Prosecutions v Smith; Morgan & Ors v McMillan Investment Holdings Pty Ltd; and Chief Commissioner of Police v Crupi at 10am on 11 September 2024
— High Court of Australia (@HighCourtofAus)
9:38 PM • Sep 5, 2024
"but I do not expect people to work all night": Gordon ACJ, Wednesday
austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdo…— High Court (Australia) Trivia (@HighCourtTrivia)
6:48 AM • Sep 6, 2024
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