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The New South Wales Supreme Court has issued new guidelines barring practitioners from using AI in the preparation of affidavits and witness statements, warning it risks "diluting" or "embellishing" a person's own knowledge.
A top barrister known for work in commercial disputes and class actions has joined the bench of the NSW Supreme Court.
The trustees of super fund HESTA have agreed to make payments to two groups of members impacted by valuation decisions made at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The corporate regulator has outlined its enforcement priorities for next year, and top of the hit list will be businesses that exploit cost of living pressures.
The Catholic church can't be on the hook for sexual abuse by priests because the principle of vicarious liability is limited to the employment relationship, the High Court has found.
ASIC has proposed that companies be required to disclose the basis for any forward-looking statements concerning climate, as part of new reporting obligations set to take effect next year.
A time-strapped judge's decision that was set aside for "uncritical copying and pasting" exposes deeper issues about stressed judges at under-resourced courts with "extraordinary workloads", experts say.
The Federal Court's top judge has attacked what she sees as "absolutist" public criticism of a spate of suppression orders in high-profile cases, saying open justice is just too, well, open.
The High Court has agreed to rule on whether common fund orders can ever be made in class actions, including so-called solicitors' common fund orders allowing lawyers to earn a cut of any settlement.
The ATO has won the nod from the High Court to appeal a finding that a royalty withholding tax did not apply to payments from Schweppes to PepsiCo under agreements to sell brands like Pepsi and Gatorade in Australia.