Law Report

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Gen
 Feb 26, 2023
Really interesting and explains the law in an understandable way.


 Sep 9, 2019

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From courtroom dramas to miscarriages of justice, to how the law affects you — and so much more. The Law Report is your accessible guide to the big legal stories unfolding in Australia and across the world.

Episode Date
Who can be held liable for bushfire damage?
Jan 21, 2025
Children and medical consent
Jan 14, 2025
NDAs in sexual harassment cases
Jan 07, 2025
Two hundred years of the NSW Supreme Court
Dec 31, 2024
Tikanga: Incorporating Māori concepts in NZ common law
Dec 24, 2024
How stressful is it to be a judge or magistrate?
Dec 17, 2024
Decades on, suspect charged over Easey Street killings; Warning signs and legal liability
Dec 10, 2024
How police use and misuse tasers
Dec 03, 2024
How should the justice system respond when a judge commits a crime?
Nov 26, 2024
Vicarious liability and the Catholic Church; Driving with medicinal cannabis
Nov 19, 2024
Could re-election end Trump's legal woes? And compensating invasions of privacy
Nov 12, 2024
The dilemmas of parole board decision making
Nov 05, 2024
Unfair dismissal: From medical marijuana to outsourced workers
Oct 29, 2024
Justice Kyrou on the new Administrative Review Tribunal
Oct 22, 2024
AI and the law
Oct 15, 2024
When can tenants challenge evictions?
Oct 08, 2024
Corporations and free speech
Oct 01, 2024
What's behind Mexico's plan to elect judges?
Sep 24, 2024
Protecting the integrity of the jury system
Sep 17, 2024
New 'justice visa' for exploited migrant workers
Sep 10, 2024
Investigating war crimes in the Israel-Gaza conflict
Sep 03, 2024
Should the Attorney-General have power to block prosecutions of war crimes and crimes against humanity?
Aug 27, 2024
Women in Law
Aug 20, 2024
Is there a role for restorative justice in sexual assault cases?
Aug 13, 2024
Reforming sexual assault law in Australia
Aug 06, 2024
Combatting illegal trade in human organs
Jul 30, 2024
Solving Britain's prison crisis; kids who don't repay the 'bank of mum and dad'
Jul 23, 2024
How does a judge know if an offender is truly sorry?
Jul 16, 2024
Children and medical consent
Jul 09, 2024
A deep dive into diplomatic immunity
Jul 02, 2024
Should foreign judges sit on Hong Kong's highest court? Anti-discrimination laws in religious schools
Jun 25, 2024
How stressful is it to be a judge or magistrate?
Jun 18, 2024
Protecting First Nations sacred sites: are Australian laws fit for the task?
Jun 11, 2024
BAD NEIGHBOURS S2 E5 | Fences
Jun 05, 2024
Trump's legal woes; Bad Neighbours: fences
Jun 04, 2024
BAD NEIGHBOURS S2 E4 | Cars and apartments
May 29, 2024
Can X be held liable for publishing hate speech in Australia? Bad Neighbours: cars & apartments
May 28, 2024
BAD NEIGHBOURS S2 E3 | Surveillance cameras
May 22, 2024
UK court ruling paves way for new Assange appeal against extradition; Bad Neighbours: surveillance cameras
May 21, 2024
BAD NEIGHBOURS S2 E2 | Water
May 16, 2024
War crimes whistleblower David McBride sentenced; Bad Neighbours: water
May 14, 2024
BAD NEIGHBOURS S2 E1 | Smells
May 08, 2024
The end of non-compete clauses? Bad Neighbours: smells
May 07, 2024
Tikanga: Incorporating Māori concepts in NZ common law
Apr 30, 2024
Jury selection in Trump's 'hush money' trial; monitoring dangerous offenders after release from prison
Apr 23, 2024
Judge rules, on balance of probabilities, Lehrmann raped Higgins
Apr 16, 2024
Do Queensland's criminal defence laws need to be reformed?
Apr 09, 2024
Two hundred years of the NSW Supreme Court
Apr 02, 2024
Movements in work safety: Victoria's first industrial manslaughter prosecutions and feedback on OH&S laws
Mar 26, 2024
Protecting IP rights: a guide for divorcees and inventors
Mar 19, 2024
"Trapped in silence": The campaign to end NDA misuse
Mar 12, 2024
Non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases
Mar 05, 2024
Do we have healthy industry competition in Australia?
Feb 27, 2024
Julian Assange: Will Britain's High Court approve new appeal against US extradition?
Feb 20, 2024
Mother of US school shooter found guilty of manslaughter; the death penalty in China
Feb 13, 2024
Derek Bromley to make new parole bid 40 years after murder conviction
Feb 06, 2024
ICJ issues interim measures in Israel genocide case; UK faces legal challenge over Northern Ireland amnesty law
Jan 30, 2024
South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ
Jan 23, 2024
High tech solutions to age-old crime of livestock theft
Jan 16, 2024
Justice, but not in my language: Aboriginal interpreter shortage in NT courts
Jan 09, 2024
Could sending an emoji land you in legal trouble?
Jan 02, 2024
Singing to the Sea
Dec 26, 2023
'Sovereign citizens' in the courts
Dec 19, 2023
Avoiding the legal risks of office Christmas parties
Dec 12, 2023
Grant Donaldson SC on balancing open justice and national security
Dec 05, 2023
Battle of the burger chains; hundreds sentenced in Italy mafia trial
Nov 28, 2023
Jurors who do their own research; prosecuting violence in sport
Nov 21, 2023
Why did the High Court rule indefinite immigration detention unlawful?
Nov 14, 2023
Naming sexual assault suspects in the media; surveillance in the workplace
Nov 07, 2023
Judicial capacity building in the Pacific
Oct 31, 2023
Chief Justice Susan Kiefel speaks to the Law Report
Oct 24, 2023
Voice referendum aftermath; Queensland introduces legislation to criminalise coercive control
Oct 17, 2023
Constitutional implications of Indigenous Voice proposal; could pill testing save lives?
Oct 10, 2023
Disability royal commission delivers findings; 'Fake nurse' jailed in Australian legal first
Oct 03, 2023
Victorian nurse becomes first voluntary assisted dying patient to donate organs
Sep 26, 2023
'Voices' to parliament in Scandinavia
Sep 19, 2023
The Voice and how Indigenous knowledge can help close the gap
Sep 12, 2023
Judge liable for wrongful imprisonment and a Palawa lawyer's case for No
Sep 05, 2023
New legal service for whistleblowers and Australia’s worst case of malicious prosecution 
Aug 29, 2023
ACT leads the way in assisting vulnerable people in court
Aug 22, 2023
Community conversations on the Voice referendum; the Sofronoff inquiry leak
Aug 15, 2023
Could sending an emoji land you in legal trouble?
Aug 08, 2023
02/ Justice, but not in my language
Aug 01, 2023
01/ Justice, but not in my language
Jul 25, 2023
Singing to the sea
Jul 18, 2023
'Tsunami of suffering': Robodebt royal commission findings explained
Jul 11, 2023
National Anti-Corruption Commission begins investigations; juror misconceptions in sexual assault trials
Jul 04, 2023
Kids' book points refugee mums to legal help
Jun 27, 2023
Does Australia need a Criminal Cases Review Commission?
Jun 20, 2023
US lawyer faces sanctions over ChatGPT use; what family courts can do for Indigenous Australians
Jun 13, 2023
Ben Roberts Smith loses defamation case, Kathleen Folbigg released from prison
Jun 06, 2023
PwC tax leaks scandal; overcoming obstacles for deaf & blind jurors
May 30, 2023
How does a judge know if an offender is truly sorry?
May 23, 2023
'Green transition', mining & Indigenous rights
May 16, 2023
Compensation for sporting injuries; changes to Centrelink relationship assessments
May 09, 2023
'Sovereign citizens' in the courts
May 02, 2023
Murdoch, Dominion & Crikey; the secret trial of 'Witness J'
Apr 25, 2023
Court ruling raises questions about NSW Covid fines; What is the 'dark fleet'?
Apr 18, 2023
ACT law to ban non-urgent surgery for intersex children; cryptocurrency in crime
Apr 11, 2023
WA bikies convicted for displaying club tattoos
Apr 04, 2023
Indigenous Voice: Justice Kenneth Hayne speaks to the Law Report
Mar 28, 2023
SAS Veteran charged with war crimes: protestor prison sentence quashed: Botox alternative in High Court
Mar 21, 2023
High Court overturns marijuana house murder convictions; tax help for prisoners
Mar 14, 2023
Duggan faces 'unusual' extradition charges; Australian regulators target corporate 'greenwashing'
Mar 07, 2023
US ruling to ban caste discrimination; UN expert warns against gay conversion practices
Feb 28, 2023
High tech solutions to age-old crime of livestock theft
Feb 21, 2023
Visa cancellations & deportation
Feb 14, 2023
Victoria commits to overhauling strict bail laws
Feb 07, 2023
Surprising Decisions About Legal Liability in Car Accidents
Jan 31, 2023
Why was the AAT abolished? The dangers of witnessing wills remotely
Jan 24, 2023
Judicial review to examine 'Croatian six' convictions
Jan 17, 2023
Who should be held legally liable for accidents involving e-scooters?
Jan 10, 2023
Can machines invent and animals create?
Jan 03, 2023
Gender diversity on the bench
Dec 27, 2022
How Afghan women judges found safety in Australia
Dec 20, 2022
Singing to the sea
Dec 13, 2022
BAD NEIGHBOURS S1 E4 | overshadowing solar panels
Dec 07, 2022
Data breaches and the Privacy Act; what are your rights when it comes to your home's access to sunlight?
Dec 06, 2022
BAD NEIGHBOURS S1 E3 | Pesky pets
Nov 30, 2022
Youth in detention; what are your rights when it comes to pets in apartments?
Nov 29, 2022
BAD NEIGHBOURS S1 E2 | Troublesome trees
Nov 23, 2022
Big banks settle insurance class actions; what are your rights in neighbour disputes over trees?
Nov 22, 2022
BAD NEIGHBOURS S1 E1 | Noisy neighbours
Nov 16, 2022
NSW coronial reform; what are your rights when it comes to noisy neighbours?
Nov 15, 2022
Inside Thomas Embling Hospital, a forensic health facility
Nov 08, 2022
'Juror misconduct' ends parliament rape trial; 'proper inquiry' in road accidents
Nov 01, 2022
UN experts suspend detention visits; and the use of secret evidence in court
Oct 25, 2022
UN calls for unlimited access for team inspecting detention facilities
Oct 18, 2022
Lawyers 'pressure test' Indigenous voice proposal; how should judges be appointed?
Oct 11, 2022
Does the Government's proposed anti-corruption legislation go far enough?
Oct 04, 2022
Police body cameras in domestic violence incidents
Sep 27, 2022
Fears states could expand use of 'post-sentence' detention after Garlett ruling
Sep 20, 2022
The Queen's role in Australia's constitution
Sep 13, 2022
Judicial review to examine 'Croatian Six' convictions
Sep 06, 2022
Chris Dawson trial: former teacher found guilty of wife's murder
Aug 30, 2022
Government releases legal advice on Morrison's secret ministerial appointments
Aug 23, 2022
High Court rejects activists' challenge to NSW surveillance laws, and women bring prison stories to the stage
Aug 16, 2022
Life, death and the law
Aug 09, 2022
Legal decisions and analytics
Aug 02, 2022
Who should be held legally liable for accidents involving e-scooters?
Jul 26, 2022
Queensland bans 'claim farming'; should media coverage affect sentencing decisions?
Jul 19, 2022
Vanuatu's push for international court action on climate change
Jul 12, 2022
Victoria's Nazi swastika law prompts call for national ban
Jul 05, 2022
Attorney General Mark Dreyfus speaks to the Law Report
Jun 28, 2022
Can machines invent, and animals create?
Jun 21, 2022
High Court curbs minister's citizenship powers, and landmark ruling on unpaid wages
Jun 14, 2022
Judge v jury trials
Jun 07, 2022
Fiji environmental crime verdict 'sets precedent'
May 31, 2022
Radio on the inside
May 24, 2022
When is a de facto relationship over?
May 17, 2022
Fears US Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade after draft opinion leaked
May 10, 2022
Russia accuses NATO of 'proxy war' in Ukraine, and juror misconduct
May 03, 2022
Employer liability for psychiatric injury
Apr 26, 2022
Why gender diversity on the bench is important
Apr 19, 2022
How Afghan women judges found safety in Australia
Apr 12, 2022
Cheng Lei awaits China trial verdict, and Vic court rules on wind farm noise
Apr 05, 2022
'Predatory lending', and supporting Indigenous people in NT watch houses
Mar 29, 2022
Gathering evidence of possible war crimes in Ukraine
Mar 22, 2022
The legal needs of flood victims, and Kumanjayi Walker murder trial aquittal
Mar 15, 2022
Ukraine: how clear are the laws of war? And women's rights to inherit land
Mar 08, 2022
ICC to launch Ukraine war crimes probe, and NSW Chief Justice Tom Bathurst retires
Mar 01, 2022
Sandy Hook settlement, and pets in family law disputes
Feb 22, 2022
High Court rulings clarify contract worker status
Feb 15, 2022
Are Australia's political donation laws fit for purpose?
Feb 08, 2022
When does misrepresenting professional experience become a criminal offence?
Feb 01, 2022
Deporting Djokovic, and Catholic diocese found vicariously liable in historical child sex abuse case
Jan 25, 2022
Crime and justice in the Torres Strait, and Cape York’s Licensing Muster program
Jan 18, 2022
Inside Thomas Embling Hospital, a forensic health facility
Jan 11, 2022
Court rules couples can conspire, and how brain implants might transform criminal law
Jan 04, 2022
How itchy underpants created Australia's consumer laws
Dec 28, 2021
'Squatters' rights', and UK health laws
Dec 21, 2021
US trademark dispute threatens ugg boot business, and deportation fears for returned prison escapee
Dec 14, 2021
Sue Neill-Fraser loses appeal against murder conviction
Dec 07, 2021
Could AI help make the law more accessible for disabled people?
Nov 30, 2021
'Body modification' on trial
Nov 23, 2021
Adriana Rivas mounts new appeal against Chile extradition
Nov 16, 2021
Reforming NSW sexual consent laws
Nov 09, 2021
UK legal action over rugby league players’ brain injury, and deciding judicial recusals in Australian courts
Nov 02, 2021
Assange extradition appeal, WikiLeaks and journalism
Oct 26, 2021
Climate science dismissal case sparks academic freedom debate, High Court quashes Palmer $30bn WA compensation challenge
Oct 19, 2021
Judicial impartiality, and court disclosure obligations for electronic evidence
Oct 12, 2021
'Squatters' rights', and UK health laws
Oct 05, 2021
Regulating Covid-19 misinformation and social media influencers
Sep 28, 2021
Britain’s offshore detention plans, and investigating human rights violations
Sep 21, 2021
Media impact of High Court defamation ruling, and NT youth bail laws
Sep 14, 2021
How does Australia’s Covid-19 vaccine injury scheme compare to compensation programs abroad?
Sep 07, 2021
Passenger injured in stolen car denied compensation and Covid-19 death ruled workplace injury
Aug 31, 2021
What future for Afghanistan after Taliban return?
Aug 24, 2021
Victorian tenant evicted after COVID19 moratorium ends. Also, can you sue over negative online reviews?
Aug 17, 2021
Balancing individual and community rights in a pandemic
Aug 10, 2021
WA Parliament debates new child protection laws
Aug 03, 2021
Covid19 vaccination litigation in the US and transporting jurors virtually to the scene of the crime
Jul 27, 2021
Proceeds of crime
Jul 20, 2021
Climate change litigation
Jul 13, 2021
Bougainville independence talks underway. And are judges too lenient when sentencing sex offenders?
Jul 06, 2021
Overwhelming support for constitutionally enshrined indigenous voice
Jun 29, 2021
Witness K and the public interest
Jun 22, 2021
Crime and Justice in the Torres Strait and Cape York’s Licensing Muster program
Jun 15, 2021
Vaccine passports and global snapshot of LGBTQI discrimination
Jun 08, 2021
Porter v ABC and  AGL v Greenpeace
Jun 01, 2021
Victoria's Yoo-rrook Justice Commission and new research on Magistrate stress levels
May 25, 2021
Improving the justice system for sexual assault survivors
May 18, 2021
Federal Court rejects challenge to India travel ban. And rugby's no fault standdown rule [Updated audio]
May 11, 2021
Drug driving truckies and outraging public decency
May 04, 2021
Australia's whistle-blower protection laws. And is it time for a vaccine injury compensation scheme?
Apr 27, 2021
Court rules couples can conspire and how brain implants might transform criminal law
Apr 20, 2021
The findings of two significant Coronial Inquests
Apr 13, 2021
Full decriminalisation of sex work on the cards in Victoria
Apr 06, 2021
Christian Porter no longer Attorney General. And eminent scientists petition for release of convicted killer Kathleen Folbigg
Mar 30, 2021
Inside Thomas Embling Hospital, a Forensic health facility
Mar 23, 2021
Politicians suing for defamation and research on re-offending by forensic patients
Mar 16, 2021
Politicians suing for defamation and research on re-offending by forensic patients
Mar 16, 2021
Debate over independent inquiry into Christian Porter rape allegations
Mar 09, 2021
Disability Royal Commissioner Ron Sackville. And legal win for Torres Strait native title holders
Mar 02, 2021
Adventure tourism accidents and legal liability
Feb 23, 2021
Convicted terrorist to stay in jail on continuing detention order. And sacked climate change skeptic to get his day in High Court
Feb 16, 2021
Queensland's outlaw bikie exit scheme. And international divorce property dispute can be heard in Australia
Feb 09, 2021
Can you be sacked if you refuse a COVID-19 vaccine? And is neglecting an overdosed friend a crime?
Feb 02, 2021
How itchy underpants created our consumer laws
Jan 26, 2021
Retired Magistrate David Heilpern critical of NSW drug driving laws
Jan 19, 2021
Family violence killing found to be a workplace death
Jan 12, 2021
Former Facebook moderator sues social media giant for PTSD
Jan 05, 2021
Adolescents who turn homes into war zones
Dec 29, 2020
Australia’s legal response to WW1 and the 1919 Spanish Flu
Dec 22, 2020
Call for regulation of debt repair or credit management companies
Dec 15, 2020
COVID-19 and jury trials
Dec 08, 2020
Royal Commission into Lawyer X findings. And Family Court's Lighthouse Project new approach to family violence
Dec 01, 2020
How well did ADF Legal Officers in Afghanistan perform their task? And the right to silence a focus in High Court decision
Nov 24, 2020
Recycled print cartridges don't infringe patents says High Court. Also, reforms to responsible lending laws
Nov 17, 2020
Trump disputes election loss in court, Australian challenges to COVID-19 restrictions and First Nations art from Victorian prisons
Nov 10, 2020
NT police officer to stand trial for shooting death. And the COVID legal responses helping businesses from going under
Nov 03, 2020
Landmark Victorian report on image based sexual abuse
Oct 27, 2020
South Australia reduces sentencing discounts. Also, direct democracy in NZ and the US
Oct 20, 2020
Appointing judges in the US and Australia and our consumer watchdog at work
Oct 13, 2020
Elder abuse and COVID-19
Oct 06, 2020
Claremont murder trial, judges and apprehended bias and Victorian children on remand who never receive a custodial sentence
Sep 29, 2020
VALE Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. High Court of Australia rules that an off-duty soldier can face trial in military court
Sep 22, 2020
Bill to ban mobile phones in immigration detention. And Supreme Court win for remote NT residents over poor housing
Sep 15, 2020
Judicial inquiry into COVID-19 hotel quarantine in Victoria
Sep 08, 2020
Clive Palmer v WA, gag laws on sexual assault survivors in Victoria and considering personality disorders when sentencing
Sep 01, 2020
VP Candidate Kamala Harris, Australian police accountability and body cams
Aug 25, 2020
Tackling modern slavery
Aug 18, 2020
Singapore introduces COVID 19 electronic bracelets. And media freedom in Malaysia
Aug 11, 2020
What is a 'state of disaster'? And Sole Practitioner loses sexual harassment appeal
Aug 04, 2020
Queensland parliament to vote on legalising Torres Strait Island childrearing practices
Jul 28, 2020
Family violence killing found to be a workplace death
Jul 21, 2020
New security laws are designed to confuse, says former Hong Kong barrister. And, should the Bernard Collaery trial be held in secret?
Jul 14, 2020
Melbourne public housing lockdown, and US online library sued for IP breaches
Jul 07, 2020