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While advocacy bodies support the government’s efforts to combat coronavirus, there are outstanding privacy and legislative concerns pertaining to the new tracking app.

Leave a little bit of evidence, and offenders of a murder are easier to prosecute. Leave the smallest remorse and offenders of manslaughter or burglary or drug trafficking and a whole range of other major criminal offences are more likely to be prosecuted. Leave the most gruesome, traumatic scene behind from the brutal assault of a female victim of sexual assault and rape, and the criminal justice system freezes up.

A dedicated list has been established by the Federal Circuit Court of Australia to urgently deal with a surge in parenting-related and domestic violence disputes amid COVID-19.

The behavioural changes over the last six weeks have been “downright prejudicial to civil liberties” but have inspired sacrifices for long-term social and economic stability.

An inquiry into a highly sensitive, secretive government prosecution will no longer proceed with the review due to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

Maurice Blackburn has hit the nation’s second-largest telco with a class action lawsuit with the firm saying it will be “an important test of Australia’s privacy laws”.

Exclusive research has offered insight into how the legal profession has reacted to the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lawyers Weekly is pleased to announce the finalists for the corporate counsel (large business) category at this year’s 30 Under 30 Awards.

As the nominations for Partner of the Year gets underway, Lawyers Weekly spoke with past winner of the Competition, Trade and Regulation category, Elizabeth Avery, on her success as a leader in her practice.

A plaintiff law firm is about to learn if it should have been granted Australia’s biggest class actions against banking giant AMP following the royal commission.