Angus Macinnis
@aequoetbono.bsky.social
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Angus Macinnis
@aequoetbono.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Employment relationship a “necessary precursor” for vicarious liability, says the High Court | StevensVuaran Lawyers
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My thoughts on today's Bishop Bird v DP High Court decision establishing that an employment relationship is a "necessary precursor" for a finding of vicarious liability in Australia: stevensvuaranlawyers.com/employment-n... #auslaw
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Gageler CJ describes #auslaw judges as "human filters" of AI generated legal argument, a description which could also be attached to legal (and other) academics: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov... ping @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social
Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says
Stephen Gageler warns the speed of AI’s development could be outstripping people’s ability to ‘comprehend its potential risks and rewards’
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Gageler CJ describes #auslaw judges as "human filters" of AI generated legal argument, a description which could also be attached to legal (and other) academics: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov... ping @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social
Nice oil-rich country you have here - be a pity if something bad happened to it . .
Bessent: "If something happens down in Venezuela, we could really see oil prices go down even more."
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Nice oil-rich country you have here - be a pity if something bad happened to it . .
I am not sure plaintiff lawyers are going to like the Victorian "anti Bird v DP" legislation - if it applied, the one High Court judge who would have extended vicarious liability would still have found against DP: www.legislation.vic.gov.au/bills/justic... #auslaw
Justice Legislation Amendment (Vicarious Liability for Child Abuse) Bill 2025
www.legislation.vic.gov.au
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I am not sure plaintiff lawyers are going to like the Victorian "anti Bird v DP" legislation - if it applied, the one High Court judge who would have extended vicarious liability would still have found against DP: www.legislation.vic.gov.au/bills/justic... #auslaw
WA Govt introduces Bill responding to Bishop Bird v DP - "religious practitioners" retrospectively deemed to be employees, but only if (a) ordained (or similar) and (b) in receipt of cash or non-cash benefits: www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/b... #auslaw
Progress of Bills
Find Bills (proposed laws) introduced by the Parliament of Western Australia.
www.parliament.wa.gov.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
WA Govt introduces Bill responding to Bishop Bird v DP - "religious practitioners" retrospectively deemed to be employees, but only if (a) ordained (or similar) and (b) in receipt of cash or non-cash benefits: www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/b... #auslaw
Excellent news here - if my law students won't listen to me telling them that using ChatGPT to do their work is a bad idea, now I can say, "even Kim Kardashian agrees with me" (although that might not be the flex I think it is . . .) futurism.com/artificial-i...
Kim Kardashian Says She Screamed at ChatGPT After It "Made" Her Fail Law School Tests
Kim Kardashian admitted that she used ChatGPT for "legal advice," causing her to fail tests in her quest to become an attorney.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Excellent news here - if my law students won't listen to me telling them that using ChatGPT to do their work is a bad idea, now I can say, "even Kim Kardashian agrees with me" (although that might not be the flex I think it is . . .) futurism.com/artificial-i...
In which Hunter Biden gives the reply in Arkell v Pressdram without even knowing that he was giving the reply in Arkell v Pressdram
"Donald Trump owes his entire political career to defamation. Nevertheless, he routinely demands 10-figure settlements from media outlets who criticize him. And now his shakedown tour has gone international."
Trump demands a billion from The Beeb
Luckily the dollar is down against the pound.
www.publicnotice.co
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In which Hunter Biden gives the reply in Arkell v Pressdram without even knowing that he was giving the reply in Arkell v Pressdram
Reposted by Angus Macinnis
Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?
O'DONNELL: Are we going to war against Venezuela?
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
ACT becomes first Australian jurisdiction to retrospectively extend liability to volunteers (but only for child abuse): www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #auslaw
ACT closes 'legal loophole' making institutions more liable for child sexual abuse
Survivors and lawyers welcome the nation-leading legislation, with legal action against churches, sporting groups and others to be affected.
www.abc.net.au
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
ACT becomes first Australian jurisdiction to retrospectively extend liability to volunteers (but only for child abuse): www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #auslaw
The most pressing task for this afternoon is working out how to convince my trivia team that our team name tonight should be "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got East Wing" . . .
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The most pressing task for this afternoon is working out how to convince my trivia team that our team name tonight should be "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got East Wing" . . .
Via @headnote.bsky.social, a fascinating article about the various excuses American lawyers made when they got busted filing cases with hallucinated citations: www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c... #auslaw
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Via @headnote.bsky.social, a fascinating article about the various excuses American lawyers made when they got busted filing cases with hallucinated citations: www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c... #auslaw
Not that there is any shortage of reasons to love @bandcamp.com, but getting a note from the artist when a new CD arrives is surely not the worst part
September 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Not that there is any shortage of reasons to love @bandcamp.com, but getting a note from the artist when a new CD arrives is surely not the worst part
I was looking for a good example of "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable" and looky here, it is Andrew Hastie vs Judith Sloan: www.instagram.com/p/DO7oKUkEdS...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I was looking for a good example of "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable" and looky here, it is Andrew Hastie vs Judith Sloan: www.instagram.com/p/DO7oKUkEdS...
This year's Jessup question is out and it is tasty - Art 62 intervention, indigenous consultation in resource development near sacred sites, extradition in the context of double jeopardy, and foreign state immunity for State-owned corporations: www.ilsa.org/Jessup/Jessu... #auslaw
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September 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This year's Jessup question is out and it is tasty - Art 62 intervention, indigenous consultation in resource development near sacred sites, extradition in the context of double jeopardy, and foreign state immunity for State-owned corporations: www.ilsa.org/Jessup/Jessu... #auslaw
"He was the captain of the team, and he was the captain of the scheme" - dear me, you spend your life looking for poetry in nature without realising that that it was hiding in the Local Court all this time: www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/clayto... #auslaw
'He was the captain of the scheme': A-League sentencing hearing begins
Lewis was paid A$10,000 to deliberately get a yellow card in December 2023.
www.nzherald.co.nz
September 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"He was the captain of the team, and he was the captain of the scheme" - dear me, you spend your life looking for poetry in nature without realising that that it was hiding in the Local Court all this time: www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/clayto... #auslaw
I like the idea of restorative justice, but I am not sure that I would go to a CLE on AI and ethics by someone who had been rumbled for handing up hallucinated submissions . . . #auslaw
As more and more phony case citations and other artificial intelligence errors show up in legal filings, some judges are experimenting with alternatives to traditional court sanctions to deter lawyers from relying on chatbots and other AI tools without checking their work reut.rs/4n4dOHY
September 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I like the idea of restorative justice, but I am not sure that I would go to a CLE on AI and ethics by someone who had been rumbled for handing up hallucinated submissions . . . #auslaw
Decision here: classic.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sino... (application to bring unfair dismissal claim a mere 919 days out of time rejected by FWC) #auslaw
September 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Decision here: classic.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sino... (application to bring unfair dismissal claim a mere 919 days out of time rejected by FWC) #auslaw
Corporate appellant named "Invest with Phoenix Pty Ltd" crashes and burns on appeal: www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/199... #auslaw
Invest with Phoenix Pty Ltd v Agarwal
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NSW Caselaw
www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au
September 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Corporate appellant named "Invest with Phoenix Pty Ltd" crashes and burns on appeal: www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/199... #auslaw
Often in litigation there are wheels within wheels and fires within fires - but not often are there hats within hats to go back for . . .
September 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Often in litigation there are wheels within wheels and fires within fires - but not often are there hats within hats to go back for . . .
Coming up next, Department of War Crimes . . .
JUST IN: President Trump will rename the Defense Department the Department of War, the White House confirmed
Trump seeks to rename Department of Defense to Department of War
The Trump administration has focused on restoring a "warrior ethos" to the Armed Services.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Coming up next, Department of War Crimes . . .
If you hand up hallucinated cases, you might find yourself unable to practice unsupervised for the next two years (very significant penalty given lawyer's unconditional apology to judge, and judge's express finding that conduct unlikely to recur): lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates... #auslaw
Statement on the ‘Mr Dayal’ matter
2 September 2025 On 19 August 2025, the Victorian Legal Services Board varied the practising certificate of the Victorian legal practitioner identified by the F
lsbc.vic.gov.au
September 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If you hand up hallucinated cases, you might find yourself unable to practice unsupervised for the next two years (very significant penalty given lawyer's unconditional apology to judge, and judge's express finding that conduct unlikely to recur): lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates... #auslaw
If you are appearing before Gibson DCJ (even as a litigant in person) it is better not to hand up submissions which include an AI-hallucinated "decision" of . . . Gibson DCJ: www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/198... #auslaw
Gribble v ESSENTIAL ENERGY trading as Essential Energy
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NSW Caselaw
www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au
August 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you are appearing before Gibson DCJ (even as a litigant in person) it is better not to hand up submissions which include an AI-hallucinated "decision" of . . . Gibson DCJ: www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/198... #auslaw
If it was "never about the money", why is Linda Reynolds trying to argue that Higgins' trust was set up to defraud creditors, I wonder? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... #auslaw
Brittany Higgins ordered to pay $340k to ex-boss Linda Reynolds
Former West Australian senator Linda Reynolds wins her high-profile defamation case against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins, whom she had accused of conducting an orchestrated campaign to end her poli...
www.abc.net.au
August 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If it was "never about the money", why is Linda Reynolds trying to argue that Higgins' trust was set up to defraud creditors, I wonder? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... #auslaw