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The rapid rise of AI use in employment law disputes

04 | Asked to be an executor? What you're really signing up for

03 | He worked the farm for decades and got nothing

02 | The will written on a frozen fish packet

01 | Can a stranger inherit everything you own?

Alan Jones on trial

How should the law respond to cults and groups that coerce and control?

The legacy of William Ah Ket, Australia's first lawyer of Chinese descent

Fifty years of 'no-fault' divorce in Australia

The dilemmas of parole board decision making

New employment law pathway to hear sexual harassment complaints

Who should pay when prison guards or police officers cause injury?

Why a UK court upheld the Palestine Action terror ban

Should a complainant's counselling records be used in a sexual assault trial?

Is there a place for AI in boardrooms and the courts?

A bushfire starts on your property and spreads to your neighbours - are you liable for their losses?

Trump's war on journalists: libel or lawfare?

America's Erin Patterson? The Kouri Richins poisoning case

Does EMDR therapy taint a witness's recollection?

What does an election look like when there are no financial ground rules?

Scam victims want compensation as HSBC settles ASIC action

Why was Ben Roberts-Smith granted bail on war crimes charges?

Euthanasia: How Australia's approach compares to other countries

A cultural approach to reducing Indigenous reoffending

How accurate is facial recognition software?

High Court says government can't use ankle bracelets, curfews to monitor former immigration detainees

Are suppression orders out of control in Victoria?

Should an offender's disadvantage have an impact on their sentence?

Law Report Special: Star Casino executive directors breached their obligations under the Corporations Act

Claims chasers in natural disaster zones

Fifty years of 'no-fault' divorce in Australia

Is the right to protest being undermined in Australia?

British AG Richard Hermer on Gaza, Israel, Greenland, and upholding the rule of law; Political donations buy access

How useful is AI in creating better legal outcomes and processes?

What's in Australia's new hate crime and gun control laws?

When a natural disaster strikes, what are your legal rights?

Defining death: ALRC examines laws around human tissue and organs

Race, language and the Law

How art is transforming the lives of First Nations prisoners

"What's in your drugs?": Pill testing at music events

Dezi Freeman and the sovereign citizens movement

What does Victoria's historic treaty mean for First Peoples?

US lawsuits allege ChatGPT encouraged suicides, harmed users' mental health

Countdown to Australia's social media ban

How legally tight are prenuptial agreements?

Whitlam dismissal 50 years on

Fifty years of the Australian Law Reform Commission

Do we have a right to free speech in Australia?

FOI reform and government transparency; Prosecuting the spread of deepfakes online

High Court lets police access evidence from encrypted app used in global raids