Trial by Podcast

By McCabes Lawyers

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Who owns my body after I die? Can I leave my entire estate to my dog? Do I own the rights to the tattoo on my arm? Welcome to Trial by Podcast, a fortnightly podcast series by Australian law firm, McCabes where we discuss dinner-party legal topics, current events and the laws surrounding them.

Episode Date
#99: Trademark Dilution: The Cost of Being Iconic
Jun 11, 2026
#98 - Rebel With a Defamation Lawsuit
May 28, 2026
#97: Scroll Control: Social Media Age Restrictions
May 14, 2026
#96: The E-Bike Boom: Can the Law Keep Up?
Apr 30, 2026
#95: Overhauled: Huge Changes to the Workers Compensation Scheme
Apr 16, 2026
#94: Clause for Concern: All the Laws Santa Breaks
Dec 22, 2025
#93 - Safe Minds, Safe Work: Understanding Psychosocial Hazards
Dec 17, 2025
#92: Children, Content, and Consent: The Rise of "Sharenting"
Dec 04, 2025
#91 - Paws and Effect: Animal Welfare Reform
Nov 21, 2025
#90 - Mirror Image: Are Product Dupes Legal?
Nov 07, 2025
#89 - Algorithmic Judgment: Can AI and Law Coexist?
Oct 17, 2025
#88 - What's Next for Workplace DEI?
Oct 07, 2025
#87 - Burning Questions: Ultra Violette Part 2
Sep 23, 2025
#86: The Body of Law: Human Tissue Reform
Sep 16, 2025
#85: Lattouf v ABC: Free Speech or Fair Work?
Sep 02, 2025
#84 - Carrying the Load: The State of Surrogacy Laws
Aug 28, 2025
#83: Burning Questions: Ultra Violette Part 1
Aug 26, 2025
#82 - Enhanced or Endangered? The Sports Doping Debate
Aug 21, 2025
#81 - Unconscious Injustice
Aug 19, 2025
#80 - Nagi vs Brooki: Recipe for Controversy
Aug 15, 2025
#79 - Weird and Quirky Laws
Aug 12, 2025
#78 - The Pill Testing Debate
Jul 17, 2025
#77 - Why do pro bono legal services matter?
Jun 27, 2025
#76: The McCabes Graduate Program Experience
Jun 19, 2025
#75: Trade Mark Wars: Burgers, Blush, and Birth Names
May 23, 2025
#74: Drake vs Kendrick: A Minor Lyric to A Major Defamation Claim
May 08, 2025
#73 - Gossip to Gavel: Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni
Apr 24, 2025
#72 - Allegation to Defamation: The Lehrmann Saga
Aug 07, 2024
#71 - McCabes Graduate Program: Unlock your legal potential
Jul 17, 2024
#70 - Do Not Disturb: Can you now legally ignore your employer?
Jul 10, 2024
#69 - Not So Private Jets: Aviation laws and environmental impact
Jun 12, 2024
#68 - Bad Blood: Music copyright and re-recordings
May 30, 2024
#67 - Pink Tax: The pricing discrimination that persists
May 14, 2024
#66 - Thumbs Up: Can an emoji really signify a contractual agreement?
Oct 03, 2023
#65 - A Familiar Tune: Navigating music copyright laws
Jun 28, 2023
#64 - Beauty or Botched: The legal consequences of cosmetic surgery
May 31, 2023
#63 - Judge Bot: Is Chat GPT changing the legal system for better or for worse?
Apr 17, 2023
#62 - Guilty Pleasures: The laws behind reality TV drama
Mar 22, 2023
#61 - Significant changes from the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill
Nov 30, 2022
#60 - Rouge Awakening: What happens if makeup in a shop gives you an infection?
Sep 21, 2022
# 59 – Do influencers need to tell you when they are advertising?
Aug 24, 2022
# 58 – Self Driving Cars: Who’s liable when they crash?
Aug 02, 2022
# 57 - Roe v Wade Overturned: What does it mean?
Jul 20, 2022
# 56 - Depp v Heard: Defamation and a global audience
Jul 07, 2022
# 55 - Impawfections: What reforms are underway for dog breeding?
May 24, 2022
# 54 - Taxation on Cryptocurrency
May 04, 2022
# 53 - Can gun manufacturers be held liable for mass shootings?
Apr 13, 2022
# 52 - Vaccine Policy
Dec 29, 2021
# 51 - What is ICAC and why is everyone talking about it?
Nov 22, 2021
# 50 - Halloween Special: Haunted Houses
Oct 26, 2021
#49 - Hey Alexa: Are our AI smart assistants recording us?
Oct 13, 2021
# 48 - Fairfax Media Publications v Voller: Media companies liable for comments on Facebook posts
Sep 27, 2021
# 47 - 5 unusual legal cases that actually happened in Australia
Sep 16, 2021
# 46 - How do the Australian Miscarriage Law Reforms compare internationally?
Sep 02, 2021
# 45 - Transgender athletes and the law
Aug 18, 2021
# 44 - Battery on the footy pitch: Consent to injury in sports
Aug 04, 2021
#43 - Consent Law Reform in New South Wales
Jul 22, 2021
# 42 - Climate change and class actions: Environmental advocacy in Australian courts
Jun 25, 2021
# 41 - Debate: Should judges have a mandatory retirement age?
Jun 10, 2021
# 40 - So you want to sue Google: Internet search engines and defamation
May 27, 2021
#39 - #FreeBritney and conservatorship
May 12, 2021
# 38 - The path to Principal
Apr 27, 2021
# 37 - Unfair Contract Terms
Apr 15, 2021
# 36 - 'Riding with pets': Dogs and Ubers
Mar 30, 2021
# 35 - The McCabe Curwood Graduate Program
Mar 18, 2021
#34 - Could your employer make you get the COVID-19 vaccine?
Dec 17, 2020
#33 - Voter fraud
Nov 25, 2020
# 32 - Transgender inmates and prison allocation
Oct 29, 2020
# 31 - Oscar Wylee: Misleading marketing could cost you millions
Oct 15, 2020
# 30 - What is the news media bargaining code, and why is it so controversial?
Oct 01, 2020
# 29 - Cease and Desist! Is that an order?
Sep 17, 2020
# 28 - Can sperm become property, and who owns it when a man dies?
Sep 03, 2020
# 27 - Digital defamation: One comment online could land you in legal hot water
Aug 19, 2020
# 26 - PeaNOT Butter: Lessons learnt from intellectual property cases
Aug 05, 2020
# 25 - Animal rights
Jul 23, 2020
# 24 - Is your favourite social media influencer misleading you?
Jul 08, 2020
# 23 - Equity crowd-sourced funding: Raising funds for your business
Jun 17, 2020
# 22 - The Pell Decision: Reinforcing the legal standard of beyond reasonable doubt
Jun 04, 2020
# 21 - Mining in space: One small step for man, one giant leap for… lawyers?
May 18, 2020
# 20 - Lawyers and Reality TV: Sharn Coombes on Australian Survivor
May 07, 2020
# 19 - Unpacking the JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme
Apr 22, 2020
# 18 - COVID-19 Special Edition Part 2: All other things law during the Coronavirus pandemic
Apr 13, 2020
# 17 - COVID-19 Special Edition Part 1: Contractual issues arising from the Coronavirus pandemic
Apr 13, 2020
# 16 - Is your force majeure clause wide enough to catch the Coronavirus?
Apr 01, 2020
# 15 - Crash Course in subpoenas to produce for law graduates and junior lawyers
Mar 31, 2020
# 14 - Pets and Apartments
Apr 24, 2019
# 13 - Digital Assets and Estate Planning
Mar 12, 2019
# 12 - Privacy Protection
Feb 14, 2019
#11 - When poor grammar costs you $5million.
Apr 23, 2018
#10 - Six social media lessons to keep you employed
Mar 19, 2018
#9 - The law on heartbreak: when courtship goes to court
Jan 23, 2018
#8 - Slips, Trips And Other Christmas Gifts
Dec 12, 2017
#7 - How to grow and protect intellectual property?
Nov 14, 2017
#6 - Let’s talk about Mental Health
Oct 10, 2017
Tattoo Copyright Disputes
Sep 07, 2017
#5 - Will it be illegal to run without a helmet?
Aug 24, 2017
#4 - Directors' duties: what are your obligations?
Jul 31, 2017
#3 - Who owns your tattoo?
Jul 03, 2017
#2 - Estate planning and pets
May 22, 2017
#1 - Who has possession of your body when you die?
Apr 12, 2017