Lessons in Lawyer X: What students should take away from the legal scandal

Before barrister Nicola Gobbo would go on to inform on criminal clients and effectively compromise all legal obligations, she was a star legal ethics student with the ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 24 Feb 2020

Law student’s superbug prevention idea wins innovation program

A team of law and science students has emerged the inaugural winners of a summer innovation program with a method to prevent the emergence of superbugs.

BIG LAW • Mon, 24 Feb 2020

Do young people still want to be lawyers?

Despite the major influx of legal education, young people are becoming less likely than their parents to see the law as a “dream job”, with research finding that the ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 24 Feb 2020

High Court sets hearing date for disgraced Cardinal George Pell

The High Court of Australia has set a date to hear Cardinal George Pell’s final appeal as his lawyers submit documents debating the necessity of watching a video.

NEWLAW • Sun, 23 Feb 2020

Lawyer X royal commission comes to an end

The Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants’ public hearings are now over, concluding with explosive news that 1,297 people stand to have their cases ...

BIG LAW • Thu, 20 Feb 2020

Lawyer X: The informing, the lies and the year of inquiry

The royal commission into the mishandling of a criminal barrister by Victoria Police will come to an end on Friday. Before it does, Lawyers Weekly takes a look back at ...

BIG LAW • Thu, 20 Feb 2020

Lessons from England’s policy and laws around image-based sexual abuse

English law and policy around image-based sexual abuse are “inconsistent, out of date and full of gaps”, and Australia may be managing these issues better.

BIG LAW • Wed, 19 Feb 2020

SA Law Society supports increasing bushfire compensation

The Law Society of South Australia has thrown its support behind increasing firefighter entitlements for volunteers in line with paid counterparts, but said it should be ...

BIG LAW • Wed, 19 Feb 2020

Top cop leaks Lawyer X identity, brings scandal full circle

The former Victoria Police assistant commissioner accused of engaging in an affair with Nicola Gobbo has been named as the source of the 2014 leak that revealed her ...

BIG LAW • Wed, 19 Feb 2020