Last week @austlii.edu.au celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special event bringing together distinguished guests from the judiciary, government, legal profession, academia, and the wider community. www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/even...

The index to the cases is at www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

@austlii.edu.au has completed the digitisation of the High Court Seminal Cases Files. 37 cases, 3155 documents, 72,039 pages. www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

@austlii.edu.au has completed the digitisation of the High Court Seminal Cases Files. 37 cases, 3155 documents, 72,039 pages. www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

AustLII will host the 2025 Law Via Internet Conference lvi2025.org & meeting of the Free Access to Law Movement falm.info. Call for Papers: lvi2025.org/callforpapers/ Registration: secure.austlii.edu.au/cgi-egate/re.... We look forward to welcoming you to Sydney.

I'm very pleased to be the opening speaker at the 38th Privacy Laws & Business International Conference www.privacylaws.com/events-gatew... to be held at St John's College, Cambridge, UK from 7-9 July 2025. I'm reviewing 'The Global Impact of Data Privacy Laws After 50 years' - should keep me busy!

Last Friday I gave the Occasional Address for the Law Graduation at Macquarie University, on the topic 'How I found my vocation' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... On 1 Jan 2025 I became an Honorary Professor at Macquarie Law School www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-a..., after 40 years at UNSW.

AustLII will host the 2025 Law Via Internet Conference lvi2025.org & meeting of the Free Access to Law Movement falm.info * The Call for Papers is open: lvi2025.org/callforpapers/ * Registration is also open: secure.austlii.edu.au/cgi-egate/re... We look forward to welcoming you to Sydney.

The Sultan of Brunei Darussalam, an absolute monarchy, issued on 8 Jan 2025 the Personal Data Protection Order 2025: pdp.aiti.gov.bn/media/tndpdu... Brunei is the 173rd country with a data privacy law. The law is essentially 'private sector only', & borrows many other weaknesses from Singapore.

Diffusion du droit aux antipodes : la fabuleuse histoire de @austlii.edu.au et ses 1000 bases de données. Mowbray, A. Chung, P & @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social , Australasian Law in 1,000 Databases: The Evolution of AustLII @ssrn.bsky.social ssrn.com/abstract=477... or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Professor Johns will be a terrific Dean of the Sydney Law School @sydneyuni.bsky.social. Welcome back @fleurjohns.bsky.social! #auslaw #internationallaw www.sydney.edu.au/law/news-and...

For those interested in free access to legal information, AustLII Co-Directors Philip Chung and Andrew Mowbray were today honoured by being appointed as Members of the Order of Australia (AM). The AustLII Media Release concerning the appointments is at: www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

@austlii.edu.au is delighted to announce that it’s Co-Directors Professor Andrew Mowbray and Professor Philip Chung have been made Members of the Order of Australia in the recent Australia Day awards www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

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NSW community justice centres will be scrapped next year - it’s enshittification in action | Graeme Gibson

#ff Black Friday deal of the day thanks to @austlii.edu.au ;-) #followfriday #auslaw #legalaid #legal #law #lawsky #australia ☂️

Black Friday Special - Free access to legal resources @austlii.edu.au TODAY ... and every other day 😁

Someone put @djag2.bsky.social and me in charge of organising ANZSIL this year and it's gonna be fun. Theme and save the date out now - call for papers coming soon. There will be trivia! Hopefully a very special dinner! And of course papers and panels galore - please repost and save the dates.

A new preprint of mine 'The new data protection Convention 108+ and its importance for Asia' papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=... assesses which Asian countries, of 17 with data privacy laws, might be able to accede to 108+. So far, none have tried.

The report of the Australian Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) (222 pgs) www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... is worth looking at from many perspectives, including high risk AI; sovereign foundation AI models; copyright interests; & automated decision-making.

This is really bad policy on the run - we’ve been fighting it because of its far-reaching adverse effects www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.

And we're out! The final episode of Season 1 of #CalledToTheBar is live and it's time for end of year drinks! So proud of all we've achieved this year, @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social , @drnajimagi.bsky.social and @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Absolutely amazing research conducted by Pierre Dewitte on #privacy by design and by default and case law on it by national supervisory authorities. Research paper- techreg.org/article/view... Excel file with analysis of decisions by supervisory authorities: doi.org/10.48804/23M...

Tonight’s viewing - the Joint Symposium of the @science.org.au and Aus Academy of Law at the Shine Dome

You can’t tell me law isn’t entertaining! 😀

Katharine_Kemp and I asses the defects (and a few virtues) of 'Australia's long-delayed privacy reform Bill - First instalment only?' papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=... Will it get enacted before the election?

We are launching our End of Year Appeal. If you value our service please consider making a donation secure.austlii.edu.au/cgi-egate/co...

An article by me now posted on SSRN: 'EU AI Act: Brussels Effect(s) or a Race to the Bottom?' ssrn.com/abstract=497... [Just testing Bluesky functions]

India does not yet have a functioning DPA, but its Competition Commission (CCI) has just hit Meta with a 213.4 crore (24M euros) fine for a privacy-related breach cci.gov.in/antitrust/pr... The Data Protection Board of India (DPBI) has not yet been created, a year after the Act.

🧵 1. It's only a month before the Courts close the year, but before they do, there are several judgments we can expect will be delivered! In no particular order: Moira Deeming v John Pesutto (His Honour said he expected to deliver judgment by the 1st week in December)

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.

Here is a brief background to @austlii.edu.au. AustLII provides a comprehensive integrated collection of Australian legal information, enabling effective free and anonymous access to law for the community. It contains over 1,000 databases of full-text primary and secondary legal materials. AustLII:

Earlier this year we asked Australia's major law firms to boost their financial support for @austlii.edu.au. We are delighted that many have done so. We particularly thank Allens, King & Wood Mallesons, Herbert Smith Freehills, Clayton Utz, Ashurst, Gilbert+Tobin, and DLA Piper for their support.

@austlii.edu.au has joined the blue butterfly. We will maintain our Twitter feed for a while but will seek to increase our presence here.