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Federal Court Chief Justice Debra Mortimer has used an event marking the institution's 50th anniversary to acknowledge the "significant" contributions of the late Shane Marshall AM, while the High Court will hold a ceremonial sitting to honour its first female justice, the late Mary Gaudron KC.
Five years after a judge delayed a trial over concerns that he could not properly assess witness credibility when evidence is given remotely, another judicial officer has hailed the technology as aiding the task because large courtroom screens mean reactions and responses "tend to be exaggerated, rather than minimised".
Treasury's latest intergenerational report, released this afternoon, predicts Australia will have a far older working-age population in the 2060s, while artificial intelligence is expected to help achieve its long-term productivity growth assumptions.
The FWC has found that an engineer's "extremely insulting" WhatsApp messages about his manager, sent to colleagues on a day off, warranted his summary sacking, while nevertheless awarding him $14,000 compensation because the employer denied him a chance to explain.
Two silks with backgrounds in building and construction, criminal, administrative and public law are leading the legal team for Chris Kourakis' Royal Commission into crime and misconduct in the Victorian construction industry, ahead of its first hearing.
A tribunal is poised to order a council to pay more than $900,000 to a worker it discriminated against by sacking him over his inability to drive an allocated vehicle, in a decision panning a "chilling" suggestion that show cause letters formed part of consultations to identify reasonable adjustments.
A Federal Court judge has declined to recuse herself from hearing the parallel cases of a former aircraft engineer on the basis that she is a member of Qantas's Chairman's Lounge.
A FWC member has traversed recent case law during a conference at which she reminded practitioners of the "regulatory consequences" for breaching professional obligations in their use of generative artificial intelligence.
Uber's business model has withstood scrutiny in the first test under the Fair Work Act's new unfair contracts provisions to probe its use of the same "cab rank principle" that applies to barristers.
A judge has suppressed details of a criminal defence lawyer's adverse action case against the firm that recently represented alleged Bondi gunman Naveed Akram, noting that any efforts at mediation would be "imperilled" by the airing of "sensitive" allegations and medical reports.
