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A post-hospital return to the bench saw a judge conduct a hearing from his bed, but the unusual arrangement was not out of line.

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s appeal panel has dismissed an appeal by Wojciechowska against the Commissioner of Police, finding the appeal had no tenable legal basis and ordering the appellant to pay the respondent’s costs.

Australia’s first female president of a Court of Appeal has been tapped to lead a major sentencing review.

A long-time leader at Pinsent Masons has been appointed managing partner, taking over from Laura Cameron.

I have spent enough years watching Queensland payment disputes to know that construction adjudication is sold as a fast cash flow remedy, writes Albert Merolla.

Ten years after launching as a three-founder practice, Kindra Migration Lawyers has transitioned into a new era.

A South Australian law firm is celebrating 15 years in practice, highlighting its growth from a small, family-run practice to a 16-person firm.

Group members from the Hino class action will take home more from an $87 million settlement after Maurice Blackburn failed to overturn a decision to cut its legal fees by several million dollars.

A long-running costs dispute between a former client and her solicitors returned to the NSW Supreme Court.

The newsfeed has reached a fever pitch about the dangers of artificial intelligence and “AI slop” in legal practice, with most of it focused on citations or on ensuring that authorities support the proposition advanced. But the OpenAI Agent breach of Medicare shows this is a very narrow view of the promise and peril of AI technologies for the legal profession, writes Chantal McNaught.