Chat GPT and the keynote address

Chat GPT  was recently taken for a test run by Justice Leeming as he prepared his paper to present to the Aviation Law Association of Australia & NZ. In collaboration with his son, his Honour initially thought he would use it to find a title for his paper. Some of...

Master Sanderson

Master Sanderson was appointed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1996. I have only just become aware (where have I been?) of his judicial sense of humour. For example in Christie v Christie [2016] WASC 45 (a family provision matter) he made this comment...

The Oral Judgment

Is it a motor accident (even a blameless one) if you are injured when you are thrown off your horse on a country road when a car passes by? The answer is important if you want to claim on the statutory insurance scheme. Unfortunately, the Court of Appeal found that...

Obstruction

Here’s an issue that doesn’t have to be grappled with very often: to what extent can a solicitor lawfully obstruct a police investigation? This issue arose in the context that a solicitor who acted for various members of the Rebels Motorcycle club, became...

Californian bumblebee

I rarely blog about material from overseas, but I couldn’t resist when I came across the decision of the Supreme Court of California in  Almond Alliance of California v. Fish & Game Commission, No. S275412, (Cal. Sep. 21, 2022). This decision was the refusal...