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Angus Macinnis

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Law, tunes, and delicious beverages. It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing* (*Swing sold separately)

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Nov 13

My thoughts on today's Bishop Bird v DP High Court decision establishing that an employment relationship is a "necessary precursor" for a finding of vicarious liability in Australia: stevensvuaranlawyers.com/employment-n... #auslaw

Employment relationship a “necessary precursor” for vicarious liability, says the High Court | StevensVuaran Lawyers

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · 24d

Via @headnote.bsky.social, a fascinating article about the various excuses American lawyers made when they got busted filing cases with hallucinated citations: www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c... #auslaw

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

www.404media.co

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you, sir!

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · 25d

Perhaps he's (not so) secretly working on a carbon reduction scheme based on . . . cap and trade?

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · 26d

I have heard stories (which I always thought were apocryphal) about parties who were seeking special leave to appeal to the High Court trying to commission articles about their cases trying to pump up the importance of the point

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 26

Not that there is any shortage of reasons to love @bandcamp.com, but getting a note from the artist when a new CD arrives is surely not the worst part

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 25

Probs because it’s either that or “adult contemporary” which is a category which has its own problems - I don’t think blues and roots is really a good fit

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 25

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09...

The late, great Gurrumul’s music is getting the classical treatment on a new posthumous album

Seven years after his death, a new posthumous Gurrumul album titled Banbirrngu – The Orchestral Sessions will revisit the famed Yolŋu artist's rich musical legacy.

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 23

I was looking for a good example of "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable" and looky here, it is Andrew Hastie vs Judith Sloan: www.instagram.com/p/DO7oKUkEdS...

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 23

I was wondering whether there might be some tariff-based chaos - I would not be at all surprised if the Vis question this year includes an issue about whether it is buyer or seller who has to cop a tariff whack

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 23

This year's Jessup question is out and it is tasty - Art 62 intervention, indigenous consultation in resource development near sacred sites, extradition in the context of double jeopardy, and foreign state immunity for State-owned corporations: www.ilsa.org/Jessup/Jessu... #auslaw

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 18

"He was the captain of the team, and he was the captain of the scheme" - dear me, you spend your life looking for poetry in nature without realising that that it was hiding in the Local Court all this time: www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/clayto... #auslaw

'He was the captain of the scheme': A-League sentencing hearing begins

Lewis was paid A$10,000 to deliberately get a yellow card in December 2023.

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 17

I like the idea of restorative justice, but I am not sure that I would go to a CLE on AI and ethics by someone who had been rumbled for handing up hallucinated submissions . . . #auslaw

Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · Sep 17

As more and more phony case citations and other artificial intelligence errors show up in legal filings, some judges are experimenting with alternatives to traditional court sanctions to deter lawyers from relying on chatbots and other AI tools without checking their work reut.rs/4n4dOHY

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 13

The sunseeker

A white groodle lounges on a balcony in the sunshine

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 10

Decision here: classic.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sino... (application to bring unfair dismissal claim a mere 919 days out of time rejected by FWC) #auslaw

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 9

Corporate appellant named "Invest with Phoenix Pty Ltd" crashes and burns on appeal: www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/199... #auslaw

Invest with Phoenix Pty Ltd v Agarwal - NSW Caselaw

www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 8

At this point he might be doing it himself - freedom is another word for nothing left to lose

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 8

Often in litigation there are wheels within wheels and fires within fires - but not often are there hats within hats to go back for . . .

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · Sep 8

thenightly.com.au/australia/br...

Lehrmann launches Federal Court action against Commonwealth

Bruce Lehrmann has launched a fresh legal challenge against the Commonwealth Government.

thenightly.com.au

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 5

There is one (commercial) barrister I can think of in Sydney who acts almost exclusively for shonks. When he popped up in a lease dispute I was in I almost said, "Hang on, I didn't realise your client was a shonk, but as he has briefed you . . ."

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 5

Doesn't look like MUP even had a trade mark for Menajin - this is the only hit I can see: search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/s...

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 5

Coming up next, Department of War Crimes . . .

Axios @axios.com · Sep 4

JUST IN: President Trump will rename the Defense Department the Department of War, the White House confirmed

Trump seeks to rename Department of Defense to Department of War

The Trump administration has focused on restoring a "warrior ethos" to the Armed Services.

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you hand up hallucinated cases, you might find yourself unable to practice unsupervised for the next two years (very significant penalty given lawyer's unconditional apology to judge, and judge's express finding that conduct unlikely to recur): lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates... #auslaw

Statement on the ‘Mr Dayal’ matter

2 September 2025 On 19 August 2025, the Victorian Legal Services Board varied the practising certificate of the Victorian legal practitioner identified by the F

lsbc.vic.gov.au

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 1

No, but if I have owned a property for 20 years, there needs to be some account made for the fact that some part of my gain when I sell is a diminution in the value of money (due to inflation) over that time

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Sep 1

Are you in favour of annual indexing vs 50% discount? It's pretty hard to justify the fairness of the tax man taking a big chunk of a gain which is really just a byproduct of inflation

Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Aug 31

If you are appearing before Gibson DCJ (even as a litigant in person) it is better not to hand up submissions which include an AI-hallucinated "decision" of . . . Gibson DCJ: www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/198... #auslaw

Gribble v ESSENTIAL ENERGY trading as Essential Energy - NSW Caselaw

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Angus Macinnis @aequoetbono.bsky.social · Aug 27

If it was "never about the money", why is Linda Reynolds trying to argue that Higgins' trust was set up to defraud creditors, I wonder? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... #auslaw

Brittany Higgins ordered to pay $340k to ex-boss Linda Reynolds

Former West Australian senator Linda Reynolds wins her high-profile defamation case against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins, whom she had accused of conducting an orchestrated campaign to end her poli...