The Brief has created a new legal media flagship as Australia’s defamation framework has entered a new phase. Although The Brief offers insight across all areas of legal practice, it's the area of defamation that has the most recognisable association with the realm of media. Recent reforms have sharpened thresholds, clarified serious harm, and recalibrated responsibility across publishers, platforms, and participants in public discourse. These changes do not signal a retreat

In the legal world there is currently a mixture of desire for AI and doubt about what it actually is within law, and whether it provides value or pure risk. I want to address some of the conjecture about AI based on experience, and how it was used at appropriate times for appropriate purposes in the year-long build process of The Brief platform. When such a formalised industry as law has been understood and practiced within an agreed construct for hundreds of years, there wil

The litigation that came to be known as Voller v Nationwide News Pty Ltd arose out of circumstances that were already deeply confronting. Dylan Voller was a former youth detainee whose treatment in detention was exposed in the ABC Four Corners program investigation, Australia’s Shame. The broadcast revealed images and practices that shocked the public and led directly to a Royal Commission into youth detention in the Northern Territory. background Following the broadcast, Mr