Designing the Future of Humanity
Artificial intelligence and the autonomous systems that embed it have become the brains of the modern data economy. As such, they have started to reshape human values, trust, and power around the world. Whether in medicine, money, or love, technologies powered by forms of artificial intelligence are playing an increasingly prominent role in our lives. […]
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What Would an Integrated Development Environment for Law look like? by Michael Jeffery
IDE design for legal coding
Read MoreRepresentation – Term or Collateral Contract?
In Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation (1984) 156 CLR 41; 55 ALR 417 the majority agreed with the conclusion of the trial judge (and that of the Court of Appeal) that statements made by the distributors were promissory. Gibbs CJ disagreed but did note at 61-62: “A representation made in the course […]
Read MoreWaiver
Commonwealth v Verwayen (1990) 170 CLR 394 at 406. At 406-407 Mason CJ said: “According to its strict legal connotation, waiver is an intentional act done with knowledge whereby a person abandons a right by acting in a manner inconsistent with that right: Craine v Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Co Ltd [(1920) 28 CLR 305, […]
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