By: Bethany Butler Last month, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney into a 64-year-old patient. Scientists removed porcine genes and added human genes via the CRISPR-Cas...
By: Mayel Andres Tapia-Fregoso On March 21, 2024, Amazon Studios released its latest blockbuster film “Road House,” a remake of the original 1989 action classic. Following its launch on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming platform,...
By: Bella Hood Wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, otherwise known as “SBF”, was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay $11 billion on March 28, 2024. A federal court convicted SBF in November on seven counts of fraud,...
Defamation is often used to silence women and the media speaking out on gender-based violence. Hopefully this decision deters such cases In the much-anticipated cause celebre defamation case, Justice Michael Lee found that Bruce Lehrmann...
By: Bethany Butler 2022 Olympic Women’s Singles Figure Skating Doping Controversy The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing were overshadowed by an intense doping scandal in the women’s singles figure skating event. In February 2022,...
This blog is now closed. Full report: Bruce Lehrmann ‘hellbent on having sex’ with Brittany Higgins and raped her in Parliament House, defamation judge finds A ‘hapless’ Bumble date, Qing dynasty ceramics and the Algonquin round table:...
By: Karina Paup Byrnes On March 24, 2024, Washington’s State Governor, Jay Inslee, signed into law the “Strippers’ Bill of Rights” (SB 6105/ HB 2036), which provides adult dancers with increased safety protections...
By: Kevin Vu Nintendo, the developer of various beloved video games and consoles, was recently in the news for its lawsuit against, and subsequent settlement with, Tropic Haze, the developers of the Nintendo Switch emulator “Yuzu.” In...
Exploring Alternate Avenues to Patent Protection of AI-Designed Pharmaceuticals By: Anushka Parihar Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize industries worldwide. A rapidly evolving application of AI is now emerging in the...
By: Zachary Blinkinsop The opening chapter: COVID-19 and the National Emergency Library. With the COVID-19 lockdowns of early 2020 slamming library doors shut, students and researchers found themselves struggling to access critical...
By: Bethany Butler Gene editing technologies have the potential to greatly influence medicine and impact future therapies to treat debilitating conditions. Gene editing research seeks to “modify genes of living organisms to improve our...
By: Stella Haynes Kiehn While George R.R. Martin remains hard at work on the final installments in the critically acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series; in July 2023, one tenacious fan used ChatGPT to finish the series in a fraction of...
After their emphatic victory in court this week the drag artist, real name Colin Seymour, says the anxiety hasn’t gone away The drag artist Crystal may have marked Monday by winning an emphatic libel victory against the rightwing...
Reclaim party founder defamed two men on site now known as X after they called him a racist, judge rules The actor and rightwing activist Laurence Fox has lost a high court libel battle with two men he called paedophiles after they...
Justice cannot belong only to the wealthy. Media disputes could be resolved as expeditiously as employment tribunals As a media defence lawyer, I spend a lot of my time advising clients who wish to publish contentious material –...
Gerry Kelly took action against Malachi O’Doherty, who had identified Kelly as the shooter in a 1983 prison break A Belfast court has thrown out a libel case brought by a leading member of Sinn Féin who was accused of shooting a prison...
Network Ten describes former Liberal staffer as ‘fundamentally dishonest’ in submissions released by federal court Bruce Lehrmann’s legal team has accepted their client’s evidence in his defamation trial against Network Ten was “in a...
Justice Michael Lee has ordered Glenn Logan to explain why he should not be charged with contempt of court A YouTuber has been ordered to front the federal court after an account he allegedly operates posted multiple videos online of...
Brittany Higgins says she was raped. Lehrmann denies it. After weeks of evidence the judge must decide who he believes Many Australians are now very familiar with the story. On 23 March 2019, Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins drank...
This blog is now closed. Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Justice Lee describes some of Lehrmann barrister’s suggestions about Higgins’ behaviour as ‘simplistic’ Justice Lee has said it is...
This blog is now closed. Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial: ‘can’t be any doubt’ sex occurred on night of alleged rape, court told Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Ten’s barrister says network does...
Jonathan Coad, who represented former Tory peer, says sorry for unwittingly misleading the media A lawyer who represented Michelle Mone has offered an “unqualified apology” for incorrectly claiming she was not connected to a firm that...
This blog is now closed. Coalition ministers ‘covering themselves’ by ordering Brittany Higgins incident to be reported to police, court hears Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Justice Lee denies...
Linda Reynolds’ then chief of staff Fiona Brown was first to interview pair after alleged rape, which Lehrmann has always denied Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Former Liberal staffer Fiona...
Lawyers for the broadcaster say allegations he assaulted young men, made in the Sydney Morning Herald, are defamatory Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily...
Court also told Seven Network paid Lehrmann’s rent for 12 months to compensate him for two interviews with the Spotlight program Bruce Lehrmann live stream: follow defamation trial news and updates Get our morning and afternoon news...
At defamation trial against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, Lehrmann says two later emails he sent Higgins failed to mention evening because it was ‘uneventful’ Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast...
Former Liberal staffer also tells defamation trial that he didn’t tell Brittany Higgins he was leaving office because he ‘wasn’t even sure she was still there’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and...
Barrister Matthew Richardson says former Liberal staffer has been ‘publicly maligned’ as one of the ‘more revolting predators’ in country’s recent history Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and...
One of the leading media law barristers of her generation, she was a champion of free speech By the time Heather Rogers, who has died of a pulmonary embolism aged 64, became a Queen’s (now King’s) counsel in 2006, she had established...
Erin Gurski, MA, has been the owner and CEO of Copyrightlaws.com since its Founder, Lesley Ellen Harris, retired in July of 2023. Erin is a copyright consultant and educator who has worked in the copyright sector for over a decade. She...