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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.

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”.