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This episode revisits the historic Federal Court decision to confirm native title over more than 40,000 square kilometres of sea country in the Torres Strait region last year. For the first time the claim brought together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to achieve joint native title outcomes. Traditional singing provided
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This episode revisits the historic Federal Court decision to confirm native title over more than 40,000 square kilometres of sea country in the Torres Strait region last year. For the first time the claim brought together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to achieve joint native title outcomes. Traditional singing provided
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The Robodebt royal commission has made damning findings about government ministers and public servants who created and administered the automated debt recovery scheme from Centrelink recipients. And why is the technology company that created ChatGPT being sued in US courts?
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The Robodebt royal commission has made damning findings about government ministers and public servants who created and administered the automated debt recovery scheme from Centrelink recipients. And why is the technology company that created ChatGPT being sued in US courts?
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Justice Matthews has reaffirmed the principle established in Randell v Uhl [2019] VSC 668 that an assessment of substantial injury for the purposes of section 84(1)(c) in the Property Law Act 1958, must be seen through the prism of the … Continue reading →
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The National Anti-Corruption Commission commences operation this week. And a New Zealand researcher investigates how jurors respond to evidence in sexual violence cases. (Warning: the conversation discusses sexual violence and child abuse)
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The National Anti-Corruption Commission commences operation this week. And a New Zealand researcher investigates how jurors respond to evidence in sexual violence cases. (Warning: the conversation discusses sexual violence and child abuse)
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The Tribunal has handed down two decisions relating to GST. One confirming the Commissioner’s view of the taxable treatment of a flavoured yoghurt product sold in a plastic tub which included a separate compartment containing a blend of cookie pieces and white chocolate chips which were intended to be “flipped”
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When refugees arrive in Australia, they face huge challenges. So, how do they access the support they need? Perhaps counterintuitively, a newly launched children’s book is designed to help refugees get legal assistance.
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When refugees arrive in Australia, they face huge challenges. So, how do they access the support they need? Perhaps counterintuitively, a newly launched children’s book is designed to help refugees get legal assistance.
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As a measure of how efficient the Supreme Court can be in processing applications to modify restrictive covenants, today we managed to modify a restrictive covenant within four weeks of taking instructions from a client. The modification was a simple … Continue reading →
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Why did it take the justice system 20 years to work out that Kathleen Folbigg was wrongly convicted over the deaths of her four infant children? Does Australia need a better way to investigate possible miscarriages of justice?
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Why did it take the justice system 20 years to work out that Kathleen Folbigg was wrongly convicted over the deaths of her four infant children? Does Australia need a better way to investigate possible miscarriages of justice?
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A New York Judge is considering what sanctions to impose on a lawyer who spectacularly misused ChatGPT. And Australia’s only Indigenous federal judge Matthew Myers wants more First Nations people to use the family law courts to get the best outcome for their children.
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A New York Judge is considering what sanctions to impose on a lawyer who spectacularly misused ChatGPT. And Australia’s only Indigenous federal judge Matthew Myers wants more First Nations people to use the family law courts to get the best outcome for their children.
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A judge has thrown out the defamation action brought by Ben Roberts Smith one of Australia’s most decorated soldiers against three newspapers. The judge was satisfied, to the civil standard of the balance of probabilities, that allegations Mr Roberts-Smith was involved or complicit in unlawful killings in Afghanistan were substantially true. Also,
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A judge has thrown out the defamation action brought by Ben Roberts Smith one of Australia’s most decorated soldiers against three newspapers. The judge was satisfied, to the civil standard of the balance of probabilities, that allegations Mr Roberts-Smith was involved or complicit in unlawful killings in Afghanistan were substantially true. Also,
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The deepening crisis engulfing accounting giant PwC – is this a case of a few bad apples or is there a deeper structural problem? And the Victorian Law Reform Commission is proposing legislative changes to enable deaf and blind people to serve on juries.
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The deepening crisis engulfing accounting giant PwC – is this a case of a few bad apples or is there a deeper structural problem? And the Victorian Law Reform Commission is proposing legislative changes to enable deaf and blind people to serve on juries.
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Matthew D. Townsend
In ROJ Property & Ors v Eventpower Property [2023] VSC 268, Derham AsJ comprehensively reviewed the factors bearing on costs determinations in applications to modify restrict covenants pursuant to section 84 of the Property Law Act 1958. In finding that … Continue reading →
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In the race to decarbonise the economy, is there a risk of undermining the rights of Indigenous people? Mining companies Rio Tinto and BHP are proposing to develop north America’s largest copper mine on land considered sacred to the local Apache people.
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In the race to decarbonise the economy, is there a risk of undermining the rights of Indigenous people? Mining companies Rio Tinto and BHP are proposing to develop north America’s largest copper mine on land considered sacred to the local Apache people.
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Can the organisers of a sporting event be held liable for a participant’s injuries? And new rules allow Centrelink staff to consider evidence of domestic abuse when assessing a person’s relationship status to determine if they’re eligible for income support payments.
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Can the organisers of a sporting event be held liable for a participant’s injuries? And new rules allow Centrelink staff to consider evidence of domestic abuse when assessing a person’s relationship status to determine if they’re eligible for income support payments.
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Is there a connection between the Fox News defamation settlement with US voting technology company Dominion and Lachlan Murdoch’s withdrawal of legal action against the publisher of Crikey? And what do the sentencing remarks reveal about the secret trial of ‘Witness J’?
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Is there a connection between the Fox News defamation settlement with US voting technology company Dominion and Lachlan Murdoch’s withdrawal of legal action against the publisher of Crikey? And what do the sentencing remarks reveal about the secret trial of ‘Witness J’?
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The ACT Legislative Assembly is considering a draft law to protect intersex children from undergoing deferrable and non-urgent medical treatments. And is the use of cryptocurrency really the marker of a sophisticated legal mind? A warning that this episode contains descriptions of surgical procedures.
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The ACT Legislative Assembly is considering a draft law to protect intersex children from undergoing deferrable and non-urgent medical treatments. And is the use of cryptocurrency really the marker of a sophisticated legal mind? A warning that this episode contains descriptions of surgical procedures.
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The ACT Legislative Assembly is considering a draft law to protect intersex children from undergoing deferrable and non-urgent medical treatments. And is the use of cryptocurrency really the marker of a sophisticated legal mind? A warning that this episode contains descriptions of surgical procedures.
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In Konebada Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2023] FCA 257 the Federal Court has affirmed the decision of the Commissioner to deny the taxpayer’s claim for input tax credits with respect to invoices paid for legal and other services provided with respect to legal proceedings concerning third parties.
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Justice Kenneth Hayne, a member of the Constitutional Expert Panel, speaks to the Law Report about the Federal Government’s proposed referendum, and constitutional amendments, to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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Former High Court judge Kenneth Hayne, a member of the Constitutional Expert Panel, speaks to the Law Report about the Federal Government’s proposed referendum, and constitutional amendments, to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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Justice Kenneth Hayne, a member of the Constitutional Expert Panel, speaks to the Law Report about the Federal Government’s proposed referendum, and constitutional amendments, to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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An SAS veteran has been charged with the war-crime of murder under Australian law. A NSW judge has quashed the prison sentence of a protestor, and a cosmetic company selling a Botox alternative wins in the High Court.
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An SAS veteran has been charged with the war-crime of murder under Australian law. A NSW judge has quashed the prison sentence of a protestor, and a cosmetic company selling a Botox alternative wins in the High Court.
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Welcome to 2023. We start off the year with two decisions of the Full Federal Court. The decision in Commissioner of Taxation v Landcom [2022] FCAFC 204 (handed down just before Christmas) appears to end the controversy about how the margin scheme in Division 75 of the GST Act applies to
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The US city of Seattle has banned caste-based discrimination and there are calls for Australia to legislate similar protections. And, the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal Borloz, is in Sydney to address the WorldPride Human Rights Conference.
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The US city of Seattle has banned caste-based discrimination and there are calls for Australia to legislate similar protections. And, the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal Borloz, is in Sydney to address the WorldPride Human Rights Conference.