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.
Between testimonies, millions of pages of evidence and ongoing secrecy, the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants (RCMPI) has opened the door to more questions, likely to be unanswered in the near future.
A practitioner who “was so readily prepared to subordinate his ethical obligations” has been removed from the roll in Western Australia.
In a recent webcast, a panel of legal experts discussed how and why the majority of Australian-based class actions settle, whether that trend will change and if class actions should have a different legal process.
