Law Society Journal Australia

By - Jul 20, 2026 1:24 pm AEST US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote a blistering missive in the Wall Street Journal unveiling plans to dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC). He claimed it threatened “US soldiers, police officers, Border Patrol agents and elected leaders” under international laws that “we neither consent to nor control”.

By - Jul 17, 2026 11:51 am AEST Director: Christopher Nolan Writer: Christopher Nolan, based on the epic poem by Homer Cast: Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, John Leguizamo, Samantha Morton, Elliot Page, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlize Theron, Zendaya, Benny Safdie, Mia Goth, Himesh Patel, Jon Bernthal Christopher Nolan does what Christopher Nolan wants.

If you know what a sentient Indonesian drumstick, a lady with a cappuccino cup as a head, and a crocodile-bomber plane have in common, you are either chronically online or you’ve been trying to understand why your children are going bananas over these strange images. The phenomenon is called Italian brainrot, and explaining it probably raises more questions than it answers. They are AI-generated grotesque characters, with bizarre names like “crocodilo bombardillo” and “tralalero tralala”.

By - Jul 15, 2026 10:11 am AEST As property prices in Sydney and NSW more broadly, make home ownership and property investment unaffordable for many, there’s been a spike in the number of Australians purchasing property in Bali. The post-pandemic trend has seen Australians buying up villas and apartments in new developments, many of which are the projects of Australian owners and construction businesses.

By - Jul 14, 2026 3:00 pm AEST Early career lawyers are expected to know exactly where they are headed, often long before they have done enough to know. The certainty the profession asks for is largely a performance, and it matters far less than it seems. The night before her first law class, Amy Farrugia rang her mother-in-law in a panic. She was convinced someone would make her stand up in front of everyone and recite a law, and that she would have nothing to say.

By - Jul 13, 2026 11:32 am AEST AI is reshaping the profession and junior lawyers are on the frontlines of this change, forcing a rethink of how legal expertise is built in early career. Law has long relied on an informal apprenticeship model, where early career lawyers learn through drafting, research and document review.

You can almost hear the pleas of discourse when The Invite starts with an Oscar Wilde axiom. “One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry,” it reads across the screen, the silent whisper of a million internet sleuths trying to connect this film with the private life of its director. Wilde, who signed here her third picture, famously had her marital issues blown up and scrutinised in the public square during the press tour of her second picture, Don’t Worry Darling.

Across Australian jurisdictions, the last few years have seen a revolution in laws directed at hatred, including racial hatred. This has included the enactment of criminal offences for vilification and inciting hatred, the banning of symbols, slogans and gestures, and the prohibition of hate groups.

By - Jul 10, 2026 9:00 am AEST Danielle Captain-Webb has used the opportunities presented to her to inspire and help her First Nations community. As the Law Society of New South Wales launches its Indigenous Solicitor Foundation, she reflects on her career and how the profession is better with a fairer representation. Growing up, Danielle Captain-Webb didn’t consider becoming a lawyer.

A A A By - Jul 10, 2026 8:55 am AEST Snapshot Since 2020, the instinct has been to make force majeure clauses longer and more specific. That instinct is misplaced; a force majeure clause allocates risk and allocating the risk of an event is precisely what stops the doctrine of frustration applying to it. In return, the clause does little more than suspend performance, and often excludes payment, the one obligation a commercial dispute is ever really about.