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Lorna Woods is a legal-policy contributor whom Australia's published statutory review credits, alongside William Perrin, with the digital duty-of-care conception. The Online Safety Act Network's June 2024 submission identifies her as its principal adviser, and she authored or co-authored several retained policy interventions.
The Australian review cites the earlier model work associated with Woods and Perrin. On 22 April 2024 Woods and Farthing argued for a singular Australian duty of care. Her February 2024 commentary addressed the evidential approach to illegal-content judgments, while the July children's consultation response names Woods and Maeve Walsh as authors. These records establish intellectual and advisory contributions at their dates, without establishing control over Ofcom decisions or final Australian clauses.
Lorna Woods → Proposed contextual civil-inference approach
2024-02-15 – 2024-02-15
Named article15February2024 under Burden of Proof in a Civil Regime; intellectual contribution, not regulatory appointment or sole authorship of network response.
Lorna Woods → Published updated statutory review —February2025
Review attributes conception to Woods and Perrin. This is a documented attribution, not proof of every historical origin or current approval rights.
Lorna Woods → OSAN July2024 children response
July2024 response
PDF1 identifies this author. No appointment, regulator approval right or exact accepted-edit authorship follows.
Lorna Woods → A singular Australian duty: Woods/Farthing article
2024-04-22 – 2024-04-22
Shared authored output with Farthing; not evidence of a formal OSANetwork-Reset agreement.
Lorna Woods → Online Safety Network
June2024 submission; effective tenure unknown
Role in June2024 submission; not a legal-control or current individual-veto finding.
The network is a submitter and advocate in these records. Woods and Walsh are named authors of the July response, not thereby statutory committee members or holders of regulatory approval rights. Targeted Ofcom searches did not establish a formal appointment for either; an unrelated result names Siobhan Walsh , not Maeve Walsh. This pass makes no claim that no formal role exists anywhere.
Read the research & sources ↗Carnegie's26October2023 transition statement says its programme ends and Woods/Walsh continue through the new Online Safety Act Network, supported by former partner Reset. The2023 report independently says Carnegie supported development of the new network. This establishes deliberate succession of expertise and convening work after enactment, not ownership of the network or transfer of every employee/asset.
Read the research & sources ↗Carnegie's22November2021 announcement credits Frontier Technology, a Minderoo Foundation initiative, for financial support of its advice to the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues. Woods/Perrin carried the systems/risk approach into that advice. This is attributable financial support for a named international output. It is not evidence the UN adopted all its recommendations, or that Minderoo dictated them. Amount and agreement remain absent; do not count this as a new additional grant outside the accounts' project funding.
Read the research & sources ↗Lorna Woods → credited with duty-of-care conception → Published updated statutory review —February2025
Review attributes conception to Woods and Perrin. This is a documented attribution, not proof of every historical origin or current approval rights.
Lorna Woods → identified as principal adviser → Online Safety Network
June2024 submission; effective tenure unknown
Role in June2024 submission; not a legal-control or current individual-veto finding.
Lorna Woods → coauthors singular-duty argument → A singular Australian duty: Woods/Farthing article
2024-04-22 – 2024-04-22
Shared authored output with Farthing; not evidence of a formal OSANetwork-Reset agreement.
Lorna Woods → publicly argued contextual civil approach → Proposed contextual civil-inference approach
2024-02-15 – 2024-02-15
Named article15February2024 under Burden of Proof in a Civil Regime; intellectual contribution, not regulatory appointment or sole authorship of network response.
Lorna Woods → named as co-author → OSAN July2024 children response
July2024 response
PDF1 identifies this author. No appointment, regulator approval right or exact accepted-edit authorship follows.