Following an Australia-first test of a section within the Copyright Act, a Federal Court ruling means that the Australian government will now have a wider scope to use copyright material.
A class action to prevent the demolition of Melbourne’s public housing towers was thrown out of the Supreme Court, but there is still time for the residents to breathe new life into the proceedings.
A former criminal lawyer was allegedly caught up in a plot to transport cocaine inside a truck loaded with frozen chickens.
For nearly 15 years, David Sinclair has been leading expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Such experiences – seemingly a world away from corporate legal life – have offered him practical guidance for in-house legal work.
After holding the cash rate in 2024 so far, will the Reserve Bank hold or increase the cash rate in its May interest rate decision? Find out in this special announcement, brought to you by Legal Home Loans.
Legal professionals have an average salary of $102,100 – but new research from the College of Law has shown that law firms pay, on average, less than government and big corporates, with 35 per cent of lawyers in firms also not receiving a salary increase over the last two years.
New and emerging technologies are set to fundamentally change how legal organisations do business, with the market for such products and services predicted to be worth US$50 billion in just three years. Here’s what some legal technology providers in Australia are doing.
Despite the recent successful Sharma appeal, there would need to be a “fundamental shift” for the environment to have legal rights in Australia, Mieke Elzer says.
Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has named a new managing partner in Australia and Asia for its finance practice.
A Federal Court judge criticised the legal practitioners behind a settlement approval application for taking six days away from the busy court and costing group members more than $2.5 million.
