A compensation lawyer said Australians should not count on the legal system to save them from scams or to recover money as “our hands are largely tied.”
With the 2019 Women in Law Awards launching this week, Lawyers Weekly spoke with four previous winners about the importance of celebrating the work being done across the board by female legal professionals.
In what’s being described as a landmark decision, the High Court has ruled the ATO may use information from data leaks, even leaked from a law firm.
The Law Council of Australia (LCA) has condemned the raids on journalists and called for stronger definitions of what constitutes harm to national security.
CCTV systems should be mandatory in areas where animals are slaughtered as opposed to increasing penalties for trespassers, according to the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV).
Since her mother’s death at the hands of her father, Sydney-based lawyer and advocate Amani Haydar has seen numerous areas of law that need greater attention. One of those areas is emotional abuse.
Fresh evidence coming out of the Lawyer X royal commission has detailed just how insistent some members of Victoria Police were in utilising former barrister Nicola Gobbo as a human source.
Lawyers Weekly, in partnership with Taylor Root, is thrilled to present the eighth annual Women in Law Awards.
Survivors of child sexual abuse deserve better than the continued suggestion that the Catholic Church in Australia does not have to comply with the laws of the land, says an advocacy group.
With this week’s news that Westpac was deemed not in breach of responsible lending guidelines, the court judgement has outlined ASIC’s failed attempt to pin down the major bank.
