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Lawyers Weekly is pleased to announce the finalists for the real estate category at this year’s 30 Under 30 Awards.

Worried about the impact of the pandemic on your vocational prospects? Six recruiters offer their thoughts on having a broader perspective and how best to move forward.

An Adelaide criminal lawyer has pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine, but will contest a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

HopgoodGanim has advised Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Foundation on a pro bono basis in a matter to fund COVID-19 vaccine research.

New disclosure requirements for allocating capital – brought about by the advent of COVID-19 – may be here to stay, “and with a broader application”.

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.