Gertie's Law

LIJ: Victorian Chief Justice Anne Ferguson has launched a Supreme Court podcast. On the morning of 11 April, 2011, Chief Justice Anne Ferguson, then a judge of the Commercial Court, took time out to listen to a live audio broadcast of a significant criminal sentencing.

Law slow to catch up AI

LIJ: University of Birmingham interdisciplinary professorial fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics Karen Yeung said there were no laws to deal with practices targeting individuals for political purposes by social media, or discriminatory practices by machine decision-making.

Public drunkenness law

LIJ: Decriminalising public drunkenness would reduce the risk of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people dying in police custody, the LIV argues. Abolishing the offence was a recommendation of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.