Victoria Supreme Court rejects Magistrates’ Court’s coronavirus decision
A Supreme Court judge has found the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court was incorrect to grant bail to a man based on little evidence that COVID-19 would delay his hearing.
BIG LAW • Tue, 19 May 2020
Top barrister appointed to prosecute Afghanistan war crimes
Former soldier and top Sydney barrister David McLure SC will lead a prosecution against decorated veteran Ben Roberts-Smith for alleged war crimes.
BIG LAW • Tue, 19 May 2020
Qld Law Society welcomes $119m cash injection
The Queensland Law Society welcomed the state government’s five-year commitment to provide $119 million to community legal centres.
BIG LAW • Tue, 19 May 2020
Lawyer X bail bid granted as drug dealer leaves prison
Drug trafficker and Tony Mokbel associate Zlate Cvetanovski will leave incarceration after the Court of Appeal conceded Nicola Gobbo interfered with his prosecution.
BIG LAW • Tue, 19 May 2020
Lawyer X scandal sees more criminal appeals
A drug trafficker with a known association to the infamous Tony Mokbel has asked for bail as the Victorian Crown prosecutor conceded Nicola Gobbo interfered with his ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 18 May 2020
Atomos pursues online streaming opportunities with capital raising
Maddocks has advised a global video technology company on its capital raising to accelerate the development of new online streaming opportunities.
BIG LAW • Mon, 18 May 2020
Queensland solicitor to be removed from roll, compensate client
A tribunal attached to the Supreme Court of Queensland has recommended that a lawyer be removed from the roll of practitioners for depositing $20,000 of a client’s ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 18 May 2020
COVID-19 ‘shaping new normal’ for law students, says top law school
A digital upheaval due to the coronavirus pandemic has adapted the way many approach the law. This is much the same for legal education, according to UNSW Law head of ...
NEWLAW • Mon, 18 May 2020
The GFC, 3 kids and a pandemic: How this student is on track to graduate
How one law student survived moving across the globe, the global financial crisis, three kids and now the global coronavirus pandemic to graduate with a juris doctorate
NEWLAW • Mon, 18 May 2020
