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Justice Rowena Orr, known by the nickname 'Shock and Orr' during her time as senior counsel for the banking royal commission, has been appointed president of the Victorian Court of Appeal.
A new judge has joined the Victorian Supreme Court bench, after 28 years at the bar where he acted on product liability class actions, including a case against Monsanto over allegedly carcinogenic weed killer.
A newly appointed judge, praised as "hugely intelligent" and a "quiet assassin" on cross-examination, has welcomed the legal profession’s growing focus on mental health and called for greater diversity at the Bar.
A leading class action judge has urged courts to lean into AI, suggesting the technology could rescue lawyers and judges from "mountains of documents or elaborate processes" that waste resources, freeing them up to do what AI cannot: exercise judgment.
A senior judge has urged lawyers and judges to “be in the vanguard” of adopting generative artificial intelligence or risk becoming irrelevant, saying machine-made judicial decisions are inevitable.
The Federal Court of Australia has said it underpaid almost 250 former and current over the past eight years, pointing to a payroll configuration issue as the culprit.
Human experience must remain central to judicial decision-making, a top judge has warned, even as he acknowledged that artificial intelligence was just as capable as civil law judges of fair adjudication.
A retiring Federal Court judge has defended the class action regime he helped to shape, telling colleagues and practitioners in his farewell speech that the jurisdiction was in its "Goldilocks moment".
Any judge who uses artificial intelligence to issue rulings acts contrary to their oath, a seasoned judge has said, noting the importance of judicial decisions being "entirely those" of the person on the bench.
A retired Northern Territory judge faces allegations of sexual harassment by a former associate after failing in his challenge to a decision allowing the complainant to proceed with the case, filed more than a decade after the alleged conduct.