Mark Latham settles defamation case with Osman Faruqi
A settlement has been reached in the case of Osman Faruqi versus Mark Latham, with Mr Latham removing offensive statements made about Mr Faruqi and agreeing to pay him ...
POLITICS • Mon, 26 Nov 2018
National Integrity Commission inches closer to reality
A Private Members’ Bill introduced today to establish a National Integrity Commission, as well as a Greens motion, have just passed, bringing the reality of a federal ...
POLITICS • Mon, 26 Nov 2018
Governance ‘central’ to royal commission hearings
The banking royal commission has highlighted that boards and management need to work together differently in the future to restore trust, according to the head of ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Mon, 26 Nov 2018
Business and management skills urgently needed in legal education
It is time for the business of law – whether it is private, in-house, courts or legal aid – to be added to legal education, according to the College of Law.
BIG LAW • Mon, 26 Nov 2018
Are judges succumbing to the ‘seductive power of procrastination’ with writing judgments?
An expert panel of legal professionals discussed court delays and the perceived “culture of procrastination” in the nation’s judiciary at last week’s Australian Bar ...
THE BAR • Sun, 25 Nov 2018
AI to affect graduate and junior lawyer roles the most initially
New research has highlighted the potential for automation to remove grunt work commonly performed by those starting out in their legal careers, which will allow them to ...
BIG LAW • Sun, 25 Nov 2018
Podcast: Why Australia needs a National Integrity Commission
In this special episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, Jerome Doraisamy is joined by shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus QC, MP and the chair of Transparency International ...
PODCAST • Fri, 23 Nov 2018
UN Declaration of Human Rights ‘worth celebrating and hanging on to’
Despite “clunkiness in language”, and “lots of references to brotherhood”, the United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights is a document that, on its 70th anniversary, ...
POLITICS • Thu, 22 Nov 2018
Why law firms should be politically active on social media
In a conversation with Lawyers Weekly, the managing partner of a Sydney-based law firm explained why it is important for his firm to be active in the social and political ...
SME LAW • Wed, 21 Nov 2018
