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A victory by former vice-president Joe Biden in the looming presidential election could result in a vastly different professional marketplace for Australian practitioners.

Justice Kenneth Hayne AC QC has warned “slogans replaced reasoned debate” within Australian institutions but suggested there are lessons to be learnt from COVID-19.

The Australian government is preparing to reopen the detention centre on Christmas Island to house criminals who cannot be deported amid COVID-19 restrictions.

New figures indicate favourable bail decisions and sympathetic sentences contributed to a significant decrease in the prison population during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Western Australian Attorney-General John Quigley has named six appointees to the Magistrates Court of the Wildflower State.

A suggestion that the Gold Coast’s 2020 Schoolies celebrations be replaced with a bizarre new way has been dismissed as naïve and impractical against COVID-19 guidelines and has generated a renewed call to cancel the event.

Neither the Law Society of NSW nor a solicitor found to have engaged in professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct emerged the winner of an appeal.

As 2019 drew to an end, and raging bushfires burnt regional Australia to the ground – it was an enemy we understood, how to fight and could see. It was a battle we knew we would eventually overcome and recover from, writes Anastasios Maltezos.

The federal government will no longer support Clive Palmer’s High Court challenge on Western Australia’s border closures amid Victoria’s rising coronavirus cases.

With the COVID-19 crisis shining a light on several civil and legal rights matters, one Queensland lawyer has called on Australians to put an end to the dismaying title of being the only liberal democracy in the world without a Bill of Rights.