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The growing use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT could shake up the landscape of intellectual property laws in Australia, and novel questions posed by the technology are likely to be answered in the courts before regulators step in, lawyers say.
A Senate committee tasked with investigating ASIC's effectiveness at targeting serious misconduct has slammed the regulator for obstructing its work.
The Victorian government has elevated an Associate Justice who has overseen class actions and a senior counsel who assisted the Victorian royal commission into Crown Resorts to serve as judges on the Supreme Court of Victoria.
A judge has granted victims of the New Zealand White Island volcano eruption the right to freeze their Australian claims so they can sue cruise operator Royal Carribean in the US state of Florida.
Sunshine Loans has lost its bid to have the Full Court weigh in on ASIC’s authority to seek penalties for Credit Code violations, in proceedings accusing the online lender of charging over $320,000 in prohibited fees.
The High Court has rejected an appeal by a mortgage broker in a saga stretching back a decade, when the corporate regulator imposed a lifelong ban against the broker for failing to disclose a conviction on his credit licence application.
A class action against AGL Energy alleges the Big three energy supplier's adoption of "gaming" strategies in the supply of electricity in South Australia led to anomalous price spikes in the state.
Facebook has agreed to pay a $20 million penalty for misleading consumers by representing that its discontinued Onavo Protect mobile app would keep users’ personal activity data private, when in fact it was being collected for commercial use.
Notional GST payments by local councils under an intergovernmental agreement with the Commonwealth are a voluntary act, not an impermissible tax in breach of the Constitution, the High Court has ruled.
The former chief financial officer of Big Un has become the third person to be charged with insider trading connected to shares in the defunct video producer.