ACT Bar slams territory government over insurance matters
While the nation is appalled at the misconduct of insurance companies revealed at the royal commission, the Australian Capital Territory government “intends to hand them ...
POLITICS • Tue, 30 Oct 2018
Operation Stockade officers accused of improper conduct
The Crime and Corruption Commission and Queensland Police Service officers involved in the Operation Stockade investigation against six men, comprising four lawyers and ...
SME LAW • Tue, 30 Oct 2018
Former WA chief justice joins international chambers
The Honourable Wayne Martin AC QC has joined 39 Essex Chambers as a door tenant.
THE BAR • Tue, 30 Oct 2018
What young in-house lawyers can look forward to in 2019: Part One
Lawyers Weekly spoke with a handful of legal counsel coming through the ranks about the challenges and opportunities for younger practitioners in the coming year
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 30 Oct 2018
What is the role of legal departments post-banking royal commission?
Governance Institute has provided a submission on the issues raised by the Interim Report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 30 Oct 2018
Law, the digital age and change to come
In-house counsel need to determine what they will do differently and better than the generation that came before, asks Optus Legal general counsel Shanti Berggren.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 30 Oct 2018
4 families medically evacuated from offshore detention following injunctions
Personal injury firm Adviceline Injury Lawyers has assisted in bringing about the urgent medical evacuation of four families, including seven children, from Nauru ...
SME LAW • Mon, 29 Oct 2018
Bar Association responds to ‘unsophisticated’ analysis of judicial productivity
The Australian Bar Association has hit back at “recent attacks” on judges presiding in the nation’s Federal Court, which it says is “flawed” and portrays the process of ...
THE BAR • Mon, 29 Oct 2018
Breaking free of the law school bubble
Law school is like a bubble because within its domed walls, some of the state’s top 2 per cent of students suddenly find their once-easily attained top grades not so easy ...
CAREERS • Mon, 29 Oct 2018
