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Staggering payout as top-flight lawyers face off over secret global deal [The Advertiser paywall]
One of SA’s top lawyers has been ordered to pay more than $56m to his ex business partner and old firm after a judge found he tried to secretly go global.
LK Law Pty Ltd v Karas (No 4) [2025] FCA 1461 (judgment summary at top of webpage)
Bruce Lehrmann will within days learn whether he has been successful in overturning a federal court finding that he raped Brittany Higgins.
Landmark case: Man jailed for rape after fake sex payment [Daily Telegraph paywall]
A former soldier has been jailed for rape after tricking a sex worker with a fake $700 payment receipt in the first case of its kind under NSW's tightened consent laws.
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[1] …On 19 November 2025, the respondent made an oral application for the costs of the appeal, and the Court made an order that the respondent pay such costs fixed in the sum of $36,955. These are the Reasons for making that costs order, as well as for making an order referring the conduct of the former legal representatives of the appellant to the relevant professional regulatory bodies. That is in circumstances where artificial intelligence (“AI”) was used in the preparation of a Summary of Argument and List of Authorities resulting in the Court being provided with incorrect references. By consent, the Court also made an order that Ms G, the former solicitor for the appellant, pay the respondent a further $10,000 as costs thrown away correcting the errors generated by AI.
[2] On 17 October 2025, the appellant filed a Summary of Argument and List of Authorities. On 3 November 2025, the appellant filed an Amended Summary of Argument and List of Authorities with some authorities removed from the footnotes and the List of Authorities. Those amendments were not identified on the document. At the conclusion of both the original and amended documents was “[Mr AX] KC with [Mr AY] on behalf of the Applicant” along with Mr AX KC’s contact details.
[3] It was obvious that the amendments were made to rectify the inclusion in the original of non-existent, inaccurate and misleading authorities. The letter that accompanied the Amended Summary of Argument advised that there “were significant errors in the citations” and apologised for the “oversight”.
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