News

7 Oct 2005

IF A CHANGE is as good as a holiday, the team at Ebsworth & Ebsworth should be feeling rejuvenated and up to the staunchest of challenges as they sett...

30 Sep 2005

AML draft next month, phased rollout expected

THE FEDERAL Government will release an exposure draft on anti-money laundering reform next month, but it may miss a key deadline. A spokesperson for S...

30 Sep 2005

Expert guidance not a sin

WHEN INSTRUCTING expert witnesses solicitors have to draw a fine line between ensuring the expert’s evidence is coherent and admissible in court and...

30 Sep 2005

Tresscox boost for UTS student

A FINAL YEAR law student from the University of Technology in Sydney has expressed her appreciation at winning a prestigious national scholarship from...

30 Sep 2005

Speak and squeak and squawk for the animals

ALL CREATURES great and small took centre stage at an animal law workshop last weekend for practising lawyers and law students. In the first national ...

30 Sep 2005

Law Council applauds Spigelman on tort speech

CHIEF JUSTICE of New South Wales, James Spigelman, is on the right track in his comments that the tide of tort reform changes must be turned back for ...

30 Sep 2005

Don’t point blame after court review: Law Society

A NEW AUDIT report into law courts in the Australian Capital Territory has spurred the Territory’s Law Society president to ask participants not to ...

30 Sep 2005

In defence of judges’ Paris trip

SOME OF THE nation’s leading legal professionals have vigorously defended the right of judges to attend a recent conference in Paris, claiming it is...

30 Sep 2005

Freehills to top M&A tables again

FREEHILLS LAWYERS is expected to be the clear winner in the soon to be announced Thomson Financial mergers and acquisitions league tables, marked in ...

23 Sep 2005

Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room

The opening moments of the new film on the Enron scandal offer an immediate insight into how the world’s worst corporate scandal in history unfolded...

23 Sep 2005

Reforms unlikely to drive dirty cash underground

DESPITE GOVERNMENT officials’ fears, the reform of Australia’s anti-money laundering (AML) laws is unlikely to drive laundered cash and terrorist ...

23 Sep 2005

Multiplex won’t open litigation floodgates

AS LAW FIRM Slater & Gordon investigates claims that construction giant Multiplex may have misled investors, a leading partner at the firm has rej...

23 Sep 2005

The final countdown for Coudert

PARTNERS AND LAWYERS formerly of Coudert Brothers Australia this week took up their new posts at law firms Clayton Utz, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and D...

23 Sep 2005

Conduct complaints made before Kazaa case concluded

Complaints about the conduct of Clayton Utz’s lawyers in the preparation of an expert witness report for the recently concluded case Universal Music...

23 Sep 2005

New York’s moment

FOR AUSTRALIAN lawyers looking for international experience, the New York legal market remains a relatively difficult one to crack, but recent develop...

16 Sep 2005

Lawyers protest against ‘draconian’ laws

LAWYERS IN New South Wales have called on the people of Sydney suburb Marrickville to pressure their local candidates on the issue of tort reform in t...

16 Sep 2005

Terror measures anger profession

THE FEDERAL Government’s proposed anti-terrorism measures, announced last week, are stoking anger and frustration among the legal profession. The La...

16 Sep 2005

Roxon slams old boys’ club appointments

THE CURRENT PROCESS for selecting judges to the High Court has a “clubby” feel, which gives the impression it is about who you know more t...

16 Sep 2005

Biggs is big in web awards

Brisbane-based law firm Biggs & Biggs has beaten 37 other firms to win Findlaw’s Best Australian Law Firm Web Site 2005 award. With a score of 4...

16 Sep 2005

Allens embroiled in secretary stoush

IT WILL go down as the email exchange of the year, and possibly the decade. Allens Arthur Robinson was last week embroiled in an email stoush between ...