Courts

Politics & Society
Analysis
The law relies on being precise. AI is disrupting that
Businesses, governments and firms are continuing to experiment with generative AI, but for lawyers and courts, accuracy matters

Politics & Society
Ensuring justice is done and seen to be done
To better promote public confidence, research suggests courts need to reassess the test they use for determining whether a judicial officer could be biased

Environment
Can the courts save us from climate change?
Governments around the world are being taken to court for inaction on climate change – but can litigation help fill the policy gap?

Health & Medicine
Judicial stress falls heaviest on magistrates
Following up evidence of distress and burnout in the judiciary, research finds that stress affects magistrates the most, exacerbated by social isolation and a lack of autonomy

Health & Medicine
Wellbeing survey of Australia’s judiciary reveals risk of distress and burnout
The first survey into the wellbeing of judges and magistrates reveals a judiciary coping well with high stress work, but many show signs of distress and risk of burnout

Politics & Society
Book extract
Trial by Ouija Board: When jurors misbehave
In his new book, Professor Jeremy Gans explores a famous case of juror misconduct from the 1990s, and its ongoing implications for the trial-by-jury system

Politics & Society
Judge, jury and Google
How digitally-connected jurors are creating new challenges for the courts as they play amateur detective

Politics & Society
Research helps wipe the slate clean
A pilot program the subject of MLS research, which sees financial counsellors embedded in the court to give immediate advice to those facing bankruptcy, is providing many with a fresh start

Politics & Society
Coalface tactics
Conservation and environmental groups are using the courts to fight and frustrate the mining industry in an act the Government calls ‘lawfare’