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A team of law students will proceed with an inaugural Australian Crisis Simulation Summit despite the coronavirus pandemic – this time, with more technologies to support an online platform and a major sponsor to strengthen the opportunities for delegates. The summit’s co-directors spoke to Lawyers Weekly about their new plans.

With an innumerable amount of miscarriages of justice across the court system, students should be better prepared than the prior generation to right the wrongs of the organisation and create change, criminologist Xanthe Mallett told Lawyers Weekly.

Law students completing pro bono internships were given a “heartbreaking reality check” when engaged at an employment rights legal centre coping with the COVID-19 fallout.

A Rohingya man’s protection visa has been reinstated with the assistance of the research from a PhD law student, which was quoted extensively in a tribunal decision.

A Perth-based firm has unveiled a work experience program for Indigenous law students to help address “significant under-representation in the legal profession”.

Hundreds of scholarships will be offered to support training towards graduate certificates in various legal disciplines, as part of a new pandemic-inspired package from The College of Law.

There was a “huge appetite” for mergers pre-pandemic, and the age of coronavirus has likely accelerated that trend.

New research reinforces the preference of practitioners in international arbitration for finality over lengthy and costly disputes.

Almost a decade after the shocking death of Ken Talbot, two law firms have been accused of making a $500 million mistake as the battle for the former’s billion-dollar fortune continues.

Mining magnate, Clive Palmer, has instructed his lawyers to commence a High Court challenge against the Queensland government’s ongoing border closure.