Barrister’s clerk files Fair Work claim against former employer
A Melbourne-based clerking service is facing an application from a former clerk, alleging that it terminated her employment despite having workplace rights to adjustments ...
THE BAR • Tue, 19 Jul 2022
New funding service aims to ‘remove uncertainty’ for litigants
Litigation, Mark Paton muses, “turns people’s lives upside down from both a financial and personal perspective”. Juel Litigation Finance, he says, intends to address ...
SME LAW • Tue, 19 Jul 2022
Legal teams need to go ‘beyond’ on ESG front
As the business moves into the post-pandemic market, legal departments will need to be cognisant of how it deals with the underlying environment, social, and governance ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 19 Jul 2022
Positivity critical to compliance success
It is becoming increasingly clear that positivity is an essential element of success in imbibing the importance of compliance company-wide, says the compliance manager of ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 19 Jul 2022
Failure to address cyber security could cause ‘foul of regulatory obligations’, warns ASIC
The corporate regulator has issued a warning to company directors that failure to address cyber security could see them fall short of their regulatory obligations.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 19 Jul 2022
Former GC appointed co-chair for Tasmanian Child Safe Governance Review
A senior legal counsel-turned-adjunct-professor and consulting principal has been appointed as the co-chair of a review into the Launceston General Hospital and Human ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 19 Jul 2022
Link company secretary resigns
The company secretary of listed technology company Link Administration Holdings (ASX: LNK) has resigned, with the role being assumed by the company’s general counsel.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 19 Jul 2022
Could NDA restrictions limit victims’ ability to negotiate higher payments?
Restrictions on non-disclosure agreements need to be very carefully implemented as the restrictions may, in fact, limit the rights of sexual harassment victims, writes ...
SME LAW • Mon, 18 Jul 2022
Top podcast episodes for students and grads in 1st half of 2022
If the conversations Lawyers Weekly is having with the next generation of legal professionals are anything to go by, Australia’s legal sector is in safe hands
BIG LAW • Mon, 18 Jul 2022
