Naomi Neilson is a senior journalist with a focus on court reporting for Lawyers Weekly. You can email Naomi at: [email protected]
Challenging impostor syndrome begins at the top, High Court judge says
To overcome the taboo around impostor syndrome, Justice Jacqueline Gleeson says, the leaders of the legal profession should be the first to expose their vulnerabilities ...
BIG LAW • Sun, 22 Sep 2024
No winners in Qantas, union’s costs fight
After a failed dispute over which pilots should be assigned to a lucrative aircraft, Qantas and the union for long-haul pilots had their costs applications knocked back ...
BIG LAW • Sun, 22 Sep 2024
Reprimand for lawyer who dodged 9 tax returns
A solicitor convicted over his failure to complete yearly income tax returns was reprimanded and barred from practising until 2026.
BIG LAW • Thu, 19 Sep 2024
Super Retail Group puts up fight over suppression orders
Super Retail Group – the company in a dispute with its former chief legal counsel – may appear before a full court bench to appeal against a decision to have its ...
BIG LAW • Thu, 19 Sep 2024
‘Inappropriate’: Solicitors disappear, ignore power of attorney role
Of the two solicitors appointed enduring power of attorney, one disappeared after he was suspended from practising and the other sent a “remarkable and entirely ...
SME LAW • Wed, 18 Sep 2024
ASIC allegations of misconduct by REST Super tossed out
A court has thrown out ASIC’s allegation that superannuation trustee REST made false or misleading statements about the ability of its members to roll over funds to ...
BIG LAW • Wed, 18 Sep 2024
Deeming grilled over divisive transgender comments
On the second day of her defamation proceedings, Moira Deeming was questioned about her opinions on transgender and gender-diverse people and the supposed links she made ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 17 Sep 2024
Qld lawyer reprimanded over undertaking breach
A Queensland legal director who failed to attend appointments with a registered psychologist has been publicly reprimanded and banned from practising until next September
BIG LAW • Mon, 16 Sep 2024
Women’s rally link to Nazis is ‘nonsensical’, Deeming’s barrister says
In the latest major defamation battle, counsel for ousted Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming said it was “incomprehensible” for John Pesutto, party leader and lawyer, to ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 16 Sep 2024