Law

In Australia, pawnbrokers are largely exempt from national consumer credit laws and it’s leaving often-desperate people exposed to acute risks

What happens to the biodiversity and communities whose lives depend on a piece of land when that land is acquired? A new book explores the limitations of environmental law in India

How should we balance public safety with the rights of people with a mental illness to make decisions about their own wellbeing?

AI can be just as discriminatory in the workplace as any human manager and the law needs to catch up to this new reality

Australia’s rivers and freshwater ecosystems are in trouble – a result of the false claim that water belonged to no one when the British invaded Australia

Explaining a referendum on constitutional law to young people can seem a tall order, but they already have a good knowledge of the world around them

Children have the right to be safe from violence inside and outside the home – and Australia’s corporal punishment of children legislation needs to catch up

Official statistics recorded 106 deaths in custody last year, but on the 32nd anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, more care is needed interpreting this data

Clinical decision support software is beneficial but if it malfunctions, a doctor’s duty of care likely makes them liable

Controversial facial recognition technology highlights the need for in-house lawyers who are trained in the legal risks of emerging technologies