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Part 5.3A of the Corporations Act provides the most popular corporate reorganisation regime in Australia, governing processes of external administration. 

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Now, unless you’ve been living under a rock – and even then that rock that you’re living under would have to have very poor wifi and mobile data coverage – you’ve probably seen at least some media coverage about ChatGPT, the latest release from artificial intelligence organisation, OpenAI.

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Nuking the climate (crisis): redemption or destruction?In the conversation about a shift to more sustainable forms of energy generation, nuclear power isn’t really at the top of the list… or even in the discussion. But maybe it should be.In Episode 65 of Hearsay, Rip, Reap… and Bury? The (Temporary) Resurgence of Carbon Intensive Fuels, we

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You’re lost, walking to a concert at a venue you’ve never been to before unsure how to enter. What do you do? 

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The world moves fast and the legal profession slow – at least that is the assumed state of play. When the billable hour is how you make bank, isn’t software that can speed up workflow just cutting your revenue?So here are 3 simple ideas to keep you at the forefront of the modern legal game. 

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Whether you’re keeled over in (financial) pain, laughing in glee, or just generally absorbing the drama of another crypto-exchange collapse, the cryptosphere has left people fascinated and confused for more than a decade. Tall tales of Individuals earning one or two THOUSAND percent returns on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum or even Doge…

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In modern day film and television, lawyers are (mis)represented by two separate yet equally important types of media: accurate stories of the experience of being a lawyer, and the more prevalent, exaggerated and disordered plot lines of legal drama. These are those stories. Dun dun! 

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After four and a half years (or about 30ish dog years), the NSW Court of Appeal (NSWCA) likely paws-ed before handing down its judgment concerning Angus, a then-13 year old mini schnauzer.Angus’ owners, Jo and Lee Cooper, sought to have a strata by-law forbidding pets in their prestige high rise apartment quashed…

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From lockdowns to night curfews, travel bans, vaccine mandates and density limits, the COVID-19 years presented our courts with an unprecedented variety of legal oddities.

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After six weeks of public flogging by celebrity culture (whether you wanted to be or not), the world finally has an answer in the peculiarly American saga of Depp v Heard… with Johnny Depp coming out on top. The seven member jury found in favour of Mr Depp. Finding that Ms Heard had defamed him in

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As the tennis season roars back to life at Roland Garros and The Championships, throw your mind back to the beginning of the tennis – and legal – year when the Djoker became the Djoke.

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