Inquiry chair’s texts with journalist ‘not appropriate’, court told

Lawyers for former DPP Shane Drumgold have questioned why Walter Sofronoff would need to have private communications with a journalist if the rest of his engagement with ...

BIG LAW • Thu, 15 Feb 2024

Soldier ‘stuck to guns’ despite credit attack by Roberts-Smith’s lawyers, court told

A soldier who witnessed Ben Roberts-Smith giving a direction to shoot an unarmed man had his credit vigorously and “possibly wrongfully” attacked by witnesses and ...

BIG LAW • Thu, 15 Feb 2024

‘What a thing to do’: Lawyers debate inquiry chair’s text to journalist

Lawyers have clashed over whether a text sent by Walter Sofronoff to a journalist meant his mind was already “poisoned” towards former DPP Shane Drumgold before he was ...

BIG LAW • Wed, 14 Feb 2024

Network Ten’s lawyers grilled on advice given to Lisa Wilkinson

Two lawyers for Network Ten have been questioned over the advice they gave the media company and its journalist, Lisa Wilkinson, on the controversial Logies speech and ...

BIG LAW • Wed, 14 Feb 2024

Court considers usefulness of decades-old law degree

A Northern Territory court has considered whether a man could be admitted to practise with a 17-year-old legal degree.

BIG LAW • Wed, 14 Feb 2024

Wilkinson ‘gobsmacked’ by Network Ten and its legal team

Former The Project host Lisa Wilkinson said it was “deeply unsatisfactory” for her former employer and its lawyers to ignore her legal needs in the lead-up to the Bruce ...

BIG LAW • Tue, 13 Feb 2024

Inquiry chair’s probe into Lehrmann trial allegedly influenced by journalist, court told

Explosive texts and emails allegedly revealed the chair of an inquiry examining Bruce Lehrmann’s abandoned criminal trial allowed a journalist to corrupt his ...

BIG LAW • Tue, 13 Feb 2024

‘Whole picture’ proof of Ben Roberts-Smith’s guilt, lawyer argues

Evidence disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith executed a man and kicked another off a cliff is in the “whole picture”, lawyers for the media defendants told the Federal ...

BIG LAW • Mon, 12 Feb 2024

HWL Ebsworth’s hackers hit with final injunction

A Supreme Court made a final interlocutory injunction against HWL Ebsworth’s hackers from sharing or using the stolen information.

BIG LAW • Mon, 12 Feb 2024