Practising certificate of Qld lawyer cancelled immediately
A Queensland-based sole practitioner has had his practising certificate cancelled with immediate effect by the state’s Civil and Administrative Tribunal after being found ...
SME LAW • Mon, 21 Jan 2019
Migration amendments recommended for passage
The Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has recommended proposed amendments to the Migration Act – which purport to strengthen character tests ...
POLITICS • Mon, 21 Jan 2019
How practising Brazilian Jui Jitsu has taught me to become a better lawyer
Sport, hobbies and other interests are important for a balanced life and it is common for lawyers to have interests outside of the law. For me, it has been Brazilian Jui ...
SME LAW • Mon, 21 Jan 2019
Former McInnes Wilson lawyer struck off for arranging fraudulent payments to his wife
A medical negligence litigator has been removed from the roll of practitioners in Queensland on three charges of professional misconduct involving fraudulent payments, ...
SME LAW • Mon, 21 Jan 2019
Privilege, policing and the pub test: Questions to be answered from the Lawyer X scandal
While the Royal Commission into Management of Informants will be held in and limited to Victoria, its ramifications for both justice and law enforcement will go further ...
NEWLAW • Mon, 21 Jan 2019
Podcast: Office romances and the legal profession
In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy speaks with the principal of Melbourne-based mid-tier firm McDonald Murholme, Andrew Jewell.
PODCAST • Fri, 18 Jan 2019
VIC lawyer has practising certificate cancelled for 2 years
A Victorian-based solicitor with a “long and deplorable history of previous misconduct” has been disqualified from obtaining a practising certificate for a period of two ...
SME LAW • Thu, 17 Jan 2019
Queensland solicitors are up to the challenges of 2019: QLS
The manner in which the legal profession deals with challenges in the new year – including the “insidious problems” of bullying and sexual harassment – will be almost as ...
POLITICS • Thu, 17 Jan 2019
Construction, property, commercial lawyers to be in high demand in 2019
Demand is set to remain high across all tiers within law firms, but hotspots of skills in demand are emerging, in light of environmental and political factors, according ...
BIG LAW • Thu, 17 Jan 2019
