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Fiducian Investment Management has copped a $7.3 million penalty after admitting that it made misleading representations about the ESG credentials of an investment fund, despite senior execs being warned about its exposure to fossil fuels.

The developer behind the rebranding of the Seasons of Perth hotel wants the High Court to weigh in on Western Australia's security of payment laws, in a case it says goes to the heart of the biggest issue confronting Australia's administrative law.

The co-founder of failed property group Stellar says his prominent Morninton Pensinsula neighbour has identified no reason why he should be bound by the previous owner's acquiescence to her use of a driveway on his land.

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.

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskus has announced the government will conduct a royal commission into artificial intelligence, just days after signing a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI.

Law firm Sparke Helmore has teamed up with tech services company Adaca to launch an AI firm for government clients, promising a "unique combination of legal and technical assurance".

Macquarie Asset Management is partnering with Anthropic and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC on data centre infrastructure, with the partnership to initially focus on data centres in the US.

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".

The government is mulling stronger privacy laws to deal with emerging technologies like smart glasses, with the OAIC saying it was giving "serious consideration" to the privacy issues raised by the glasses, most of which are made by Meta.

Firmus has secured $2.8 billion in equity commitments to speed the rollout of its data centres across Australia, as the AI data centre start-up preps for a debut on the ASX later this year.