A White & Case M&A partner has called out students using AI to beef up their CVs after a few weeks on vac schemes. To make his point, he invented Paul, 21, whose AI-polished CV has him running £102bn of deals in a single July. Mason reckons students are better off owning the grunt work instead: Point Blank

⚖️ Disputes: Parties can’t unilaterally redact “irrelevant” parts of disclosed documents, even ones from a confidential arbitration. NRT hired MGN to upgrade a facility, and MGN hired ACG to design the works. When things went wrong, NRT sued both, while MGN and ACG fought a separate arbitration. In NRT v MGN, the Queensland Supreme Court ordered the pair to hand over their arbitration witness statements and expert reports to NRT unredacted. McCafferty J held that if any part of a document is relevant, the whole document must be disclosed, and arbitral confidentiality alone didn’t justify blacking out the rest: Queensland Supreme Court

⚖️ IP/AI: A US court has delivered the first appeal ruling on whether training AI on copyrighted material is fair use. ROSS Intelligence copied Westlaw headnotes to train a competing legal research tool. The court held the headnotes were protected by copyright because editors chose which legal points to include and how to phrase them. ROSS’s use wasn’t fair because it was commercial, served the same purpose as Westlaw, copied the headnotes in full and cost Thomson Reuters the chance to license them as training data. Australia’s copyright exceptions are even narrower than US fair use. The Albo Government has also ruled out a new exception for AI training, so local players face even tighter limits: HWLE

⚖️ Corporate: Foreign companies listed on ASX will soon face the same substantial holding rules as Australian ones. From 4 December 2026, the Corporations Act’s substantial holding and tracing notice rules will cover foreign listed entities. Since 2013, ASX’s Listing Rules have filled that gap by making foreign entities pass on holding information received under overseas law. With the law now covering it, ASX proposes to delete Listing Rule 3.17.3 and narrow LR 3.17.4 to avoid duplication. It will also stop requiring substantial holding undertakings from foreign entities on admission: ASX

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Russell Brand has been jailed for 10.5 years for rape and three counts of sexual assault against four women between 2004 and 2009. His barrister, Ian Winter KC, argued the rape was a “momentary” failure to respect consent. Judge Joel Bennathan called Brand a “sexual predator” but still gave a small discount for his recent good character: ABC

Google may block under-18s from Gmail and Google Drive. It says Labor’s proposed digital duty of care laws could also force it to age-verify users and scan private files. Services must block under-18s where there’s a “reasonably foreseeable risk” of porn exposure. Google says this lacks nuance for private communications: AFR

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