Victoria Police senior lawyer referred to legal regulator

The inquiry tasked with investigating Lawyer X has criticised Victoria Police for a failure to obtain legal advice or seek appropriate steps to rectify the scandal as its ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 07 Dec 2020

50 offshore detention challenges to move forward after test case win

More than 50 cases alleging that the Commonwealth was negligent with the healthcare of asylum seekers and refugees will proceed after a High Court decision ruled it would ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 07 Dec 2020

Dedicated family violence court opens in Victoria 

An expert and dedicated court system has been set up in Victoria’s south-east to handle the greater care and experience necessary to hear cases from family violence ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 07 Dec 2020

Victoria stamps out cruel conversion practices

The “cruel and bigoted” practices that attempt to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity will soon be stamped out across Victoria under new ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 07 Dec 2020

ASIO powers out of line, LCA says

Australia’s premier legal body is concerned that the new ASIO powers are “out of line”, with plans to significantly expand on them without crucial safeguards.

BIG LAW • Sun, 06 Dec 2020

DPP to step in early to prevent another Lawyer X event

The Lawyer X inquiry has recommended the Director of Public Prosecutions step in to prevent police from using legal loopholes to cover up the use of privileged ...

BIG LAW • Thu, 03 Dec 2020

ACT lawyers better prepared to support clients with disability

The ACT Law Society has welcomed the launch of a new toolkit and guidelines to help its lawyers provide legal assistance to clients with a disability.

BIG LAW • Thu, 03 Dec 2020

The other police informants on the edge of their own Lawyer X saga

Although it is hard to beat the extent to which Nicola Gobbo breached legal obligations, professional privilege and disrupted the whole of the criminal justice system in ...

BIG LAW • Wed, 02 Dec 2020

Victorian firms should report on ethnic diversity, LIV says

Under new recommendations by the Law Institute of Victoria, firms are being encouraged to report on and track ethnic diversity to ensure the profession breaks down ...

BIG LAW • Wed, 02 Dec 2020