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On Monday, the Fair Work Ombudsman announced employees can refuse to respond to work-related messages outside paid hours. The right to disconnect is similar to many other industrial relations rules around the globe. The law does not ban employers from contacting employees outside paid hours. But rather, it gives workers the right not to respond. …
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The NSW State Government has proposed new powers for the police to search people for weapons with a metal-detecting wand without a warrant. This comes after months of violent knife crime that bewildered the state and country. The new reforms will be modeled after Queensland’s ‘Jack’s Law’, which came into the Queensland legislature after the …
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Artificial Intelligence is shaping fairness in Australian law, but the public lacks transparency. Predictive algorithms used by Australian Corrective Services target individuals based on perceived risk factors for re-offending, such as family ties and neighborhood associations. However, the methods for recording and assessing these factors remain undisclosed. Is this your idea of justice? Image: Image: …
New research supports the push for reformed drug-driving laws following the legalisation of medicinal cannabis in 2016. Under New South Wales law, both the presence of THC and driving under the influence are offences and result in a loss of license. For individuals who rely on medicinal cannabis for chronic pain and other conditions, it …
Birchgrove Legal Law Firm have referred the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese to the International Criminal Court, being accused of complicity in genocide. A team of Australian lawyers from the firm spent five months documenting the alleged complicity and outlining the individual criminal responsibility of the Prime Minister in relation to the situation in Gaza. …
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The Alabama Supreme court has recently passed a law stating that frozen embryos have the same rights to human life as children. This law poses dangerous implications for the practice of IVF in Alabama. It threatens those who handle embryos with serious criminal offences if handled incorrectly. The hand of IVF clinics have been forced …
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now being used in courtrooms across the world. But to what extent is AI actually being used and how are these latest technologies employed in a court of law? What are the efficiency and ethical implications of AI in a legal setting? Image: Credit: Getty Images Produced By: Toni Pankaluic Featured …
Yesterday, Attorney General Mark Dreyfus announced reforms to the secrecy legislation that aims to harmonise the vast array of laws in regards to the protection of information. Stephen Hill asks Kieran Pender senior lawyer of the Human Rights Law Centre whether the changes provide an adequate balance between transparency and protection of government information. Pender …