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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

“He said it was his belief that it was lawful to drive after using medicinally prescribed cannabis so long as he was not ‘under the influence’ … that advice was wrong … [and] from an internet chat forum” Smith v Marshall [2024] TASMC 12: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Smith v Marshall [2024] TASMC 12 (10 December 2024)

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“This case demonstrates the importance of opening [traffic infringement] letters … even if the contents of the letter are potentially unwelcome. A missed opportunity to dispute liability may lead to an outcome more severe than … in the penalty notice.” www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Topic v DPP [2024] ACTSC 398 (16 December 2024)

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"Individuals who were present in Australia for more than 30 days between 2 Nov 2013 and 17 Dec 2015, and either installed the This is Your Digital Life app [or were friends with someone who did], can apply for a base payment based on generalised concern or embarrassment"

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"Landmark settlement of $50m from Meta for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident ... the largest ever payment dedicated to addressing concerns about the privacy of individuals in Australia" www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-c...

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Landmark settlement of $50m from Meta for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident

The Australian Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million payment program as part of an enforceable undertaking received from Meta to settle civil penalty proceedings.

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"Attitudes toward Voluntary Assisted Dying for people in prison in Australia" New article (first online 29 Nov 2024) in Death Studies by @UniofAdelaide's Oscar Williams, Anna Chur-Hansen and Gregory Crawford www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Attitudes toward Voluntary Assisted Dying for people in prison in Australia

End-of-life care options in Australia, recently including Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD), are available to people in prison. Little is known about how the public perceives this right. We aimed to i...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Netherlands man lists OpenAI as his legal representative in trademark proceedings. “The defendant's arguments on the similarities between the brands and signs have been fully drawn up by Chat-GPT.” (Translated by Google Translate) www.ie-forum.nl/artikelen/ve...

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Verwarringsgevaar tussen Penguin en ArtPenguin

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

“There comes a time in the life of a statutory provision when a particular construction becomes so well settled and for such a long time, that the contrary construction becomes unarguable, however attractive it might have been” [2024] UKSC 42 (11 Dec) supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“[The defendant’s] conduct in refusing to cooperate and telling police to “fuck off” and “shut the fuck up”, was not an “obvious” breach of the peace or a reasonable basis upon which to determine that harm was imminent.” Donnelly v Lester [2024] ACTSC 393: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Donnelly v Lester [2024] ACTSC 393 (11 December 2024)

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“Telstra has paid a penalty of more than $3 million for failing to comply with emergency call rules during a technical disruption at its Triple Zero emergency call centre.” www.acma.gov.au/articles/202...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“On Charge 1, attempted possession of a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border controlled drug, you are convicted and sentenced to be imprisoned for a period of five and a half years … I direct that you serve a period of three years before becoming eligible for parole.”

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“Police removed the methamphetamine from the tea packets and replaced it with an inert substance. After such substitution, a controlled delivery of the consignment was made to the named consignee…”

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“Each of the packets contained methamphetamine with a purity of about 80 per cent. The total quantity of pure methamphetamine in the consignment was 497.2 kilograms. A commercial quantity of methamphetamine is 0.75 kilograms … the amount of methamphetamine was 662.9 times the commercial quantity”

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“The parcels contained 125 gold packets labelled “Freeso Durient tea” and 497 green packets labelled “Guayinwang tea”. In total, there were 622 packets of tea, each weighing approximately one kilogram…”

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“Australian Border Force had inspected the 16 pallets and discovered that on three of the pallets, instead of eight slabs of toilet rolls, there were only six such slabs, which were resting on two layers of white parcels…”

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“Charge 1 on the indictment involves conduct by you in Melbourne on one day relating to a consignment of 16 pallets of toilet rolls in a container which had left Malaysia by ship…” DPP (Cth) v Koo [2024] VCC 1995: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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DPP (Cth) v Koo [2024] VCC 1995 (12 December 2024)

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“Measuring success in the ACT’s Drug and Alcohol Sentencing List” | new from ANZSOG’s Sophie Yates (@sophieyates.bsky.social), Lorana Bartels and Meredith Rossner anzsog.edu.au/app/uploads/...

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Alternative Law Journal @altlj.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Alternative Law Journal cerebrates 50 years as Australia's leading law reform journal. We publish critical scholarly articles on law, social justice, human rights, critique of the legal system, innovative & alternative practice & community legal education #Auslaw journals.sagepub.com/home/alj

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“In 2019 … Maurice Blackburn commenced … a class action, against … the Uber group … [by] participants in the taxi and hire car industries in Victoria … Without admission of liability, Uber agreed to pay $271.8 million to settle the proceedings” www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Andrianakis v Uber Technologies Inc and Others (Settlement Approval) [2024] VSC 733 (2 December 2024)

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Digital Dignity: The Shibboleth of Digitalization in Europe? Cemre C.Kadioglu Kumtepe and Stephen Riley

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Free Speech and the Case for Regulating Online Reviews of Professional Services in the United States Richard L Pate and Claudio Schapsis

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Generative AI, Copyright and Emancipation: The Case of Digital Art Célia F Matias

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Case Law as Data: Prompt Engineering Strategies for Case Outcome Extraction with Large Language Models in a Zero-Shot Setting Guillaume Zambrano

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Integrating Generative AI into Legal Education: From Casebooks to Code, Opportunities and Challenges Aswathy Prakash and Vishnu Nair

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Taking Law Seriously: The Challenges of Law as Research Data in Socio-legal Scholarship @ucddublin.bsky.social’s Audrey Plan

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The Human in the Feedback Loop: Predictive Analytics in Refugee Status Determination University of Wollongong’s Niamh Kinchin

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Using Generative AI to Identify Arguments in Judges’ Reasons: Accuracy and Benefits for Students @monashuniversity.bsky.social’s Paul Burgess, Iwan Williams,and Lizhen Quand Weiqing Wang

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Interesting new issue of the (open-access) journal @LawTechHum, on “the latest developments in data-driven approaches to law, and its impact on legal practice, education and systems.” Edited by Rónán Kennedy and Brian Barry lthj.qut.edu.au/issue/view/140 🧵 of article abstracts below

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

WA Court of Appeal notes that the requirement for sentencing courts to specify the discount for assisting authorities only applies to “future” assistance, so courts can’t apply one discount for *both* past and present assistance. GRL v WA [2024] WASCA 146: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The extensive references in the background paper to Prof Heather Douglas’s many publications on strangulation offences in the last decade are a testament to the singular and important contribution she has made in this space.

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The QLD Law Reform Commission has today published a background paper for its review of QLD’s strangulation offence. Consultation paper due mid-2025. www.qlrc.qld.gov.au/__data/asset...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“successful evaluation [by the Centre for Innovative Justice] of the legal services set up [by Victoria Legal Aid] to support the first five specialist family violence courts in Victoria … in line with international best practice” www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/best-practic...

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‘Best-practice’ legal services helping to reduce family violence risk in Victoria

An evaluation of the legal services set up to support Victoria’s first five specialist family violence courts demonstrates the important role holistic legal assistance plays in addressing gender-based...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“Doing Time for Men’s Crimes: How Male Violence is Driving Record Numbers of Women into Australia’s Prisons” | new @TheJusticeMap report released today justicemap.org.au/wp-content/u...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“Corrupt police misconduct … has significant social consequences. It undermines public confidence in the police force, erodes the morale of honest police officers and can encourage other police to ignore similar behaviour.” DPP v Symes [2024] VCC 1836: classic.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic...

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · 25/11/2024

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Legal profession (professional misconduct) Khosa v Legal Services and Complaints Committee [2024] WASCA 148: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Statute of limitations Basile v Pugh [2024] VSCA 280: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Sentence appeal (manifest excess, standard sentence) Kwag v The King [2024] VSCA 279: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Suppression orders (open justice) Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner v Belperio (No 2) [2024] SASCA 133: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Bankruptcy Ritson v Ryan [2024] QCA 236: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Conviction appeal (jury directions) R v CDI [2024] QCA 232: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Sentence appeal (manifest excess) R v Thompson [2024] QCA 233: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Sentence appeal (self-rep) Getawan v Queensland Police Service [2024] QCA 234: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Admin law (costs) Health Ombudsman v du Toit [2024] QCA 235: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Conviction appeal (jury directions, right to silence) Hampton v The Queen [2022] NTCCA 7: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Conviction appeal (extension of time to appeal) Kwu v R [2024] NSWCCA 199: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Permanent stays Burton v R [2024] NSWCCA 213: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Bhatt v R [2024] NSWCCA 214: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ashell Homes Constructions Pty Ltd v Kobus [2024] ACTCA 32: www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr Paul McGorrery @paulmcgorrery.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

For all my fellow law nerds, I’ll be trying something new on this platform. One of my favourite things to do is catch up on recent judgments around the country. I’ll be screenshotting catchwords with links to recent apex courts’ decisions in each State/Territory.

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