This is fascinating - what amounts to a non-party costs order (plus $10miliion in punitives) sought against ChatGPT for enabling meritless claims of litigant in person: www.reuters.com/legal/legali... #auslaw
Yet another Australian lawyer rumbled for handing up submissions with hallucinated cases (7) and non-existent quotes (12) (this time in the Vic Ct of App): www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view... #auslaw
I am never a fan of using "terminated" to describe the end of employment (yes, you may be terminating the contract, but you can try to make it sound like you are not putting the employee to death), but at least it is better than "offboarding" - see [8]: #auslaw
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Hobart Hurricanes is no longer a franchise, it is now an IRL weather event
As a junior lawyer, I was given the sage advice that "if you write a letter of longer than 3 pages to your opponent, you have already lost". I have just been instructed in an appeal where my client lost this in this manner, although the other side should also have lost in the same way . . . #auslaw
Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Jon Kudelka helped me get my first cartooning job at The Mercury. He also showed me how to be quick-witted and fearless. I was in a constant state of joke-envy over his cartoons. I'm gonna miss that feeling, but more than that, I'm gonna miss my friend.
Agreed. Devastating news. Vale Kudelka
As they say in the classics, this is a frood who really knows where her towel is: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/weather...
NSW Bill "abolishing" good character as a sentencing factor (although it looks as though references may still be admissible for non-character purposes, like evidence of contrition): www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/bills/Pages/... #auslaw
An add for a law firm reads,”Whether you’re in the theater or being questioned by police, MJM Law Office reminds you to stay quiet.”
I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins notes that the average American can save 50% on their food budget by eating every other day.
If you sit on the report claiming that wind farms are a "threat to national security" for a month before taking any action, you shouldn't be too surprised if a judge doesn't think that the threat doesn't amount to much
'But, let’s be quite clear, the routine invocation of “safety” is code for “I don’t want to hear your opinion” ' this does not miss: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What might be described as a mildly truncated timetable given that the Bill runs to 144 pages #auslaw
And, it appears, less major economies such as Australia
This is such awful news - we had grey-headed flying foxes in our palm tree over Christmas and they are fascinating creatures (even if their table manners could use some work)
This piece I wrote for the Conversation four years ago is still relevant today. Stay cool Aotearoa!
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Yes, although it does rather undercut the logic of calling a Royal Commission if the event which was the trigger for the calling ends up being largely outside what can be inquired into
ToR expressly says (paraphrasing) "you are not required to inquire into anything more appropriately dealt with by a criminal proceeding" - so presumably anything about the attack just gets carved out
I don't recall victim-survivors, or indeed institutions, trying to argue for a veto right over commissioners to the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission, but I suppose there just wasn't that much self-entitlement around back then to do so
Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.
Indeed - exactly as there was for the Lindt Cafe siege, the Bondi Junction stabbing, and other dreadful acts of violence
Indeed. The Law Council of Australia should know better - they seem to be suggesting that the RC could investigate "events leading up to the attack" without touching on the motivation of the attackers, which appears to be unmoored from reality
"The timing, conduct and terms of ref of any RC should be structured so as not to interfere with ongoing criminal proceedings"- but no practical suggestion as to how that can be done in a timely way. Awful word salad from the Law Council and an awful position: lawcouncil.au/media/media-... #auslaw
Trav should be thinking that he only needs another 395 runs in this Test to overtake DG Bradman for the record in a 5-test Ashes series . . .
Two reviews on the nightwatchman - what were you thinking? Do you think?
It seems to keep working for them. It is just a coincidence there are so many News alum at decision making level of those other outlets
"Come over here and take a gander/at the only Cybertruck in all of Uganda/don't tell me I ain't got the skills/to drive it up these rollin' hills"
Very disappointing to see the ABC taking dictation from plaintiff lawyers (especially when that dictation is wrong - the Royal Commission expressly recommended against making vicarious liability retrospective): www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... #auslaw
