South Australia

Rural council on administration after spending ‘excessive’ legal fees

After an investigation into how an outback rural council went into administration, it was revealed that the council had...

03 April 2020

By Tony Zhang

Post-coronavirus could erase need for courtrooms altogether

Coronavirus restrictions will successfully challenge entrenched views and traditions in firms and will make for a...

01 April 2020

By Naomi Neilson

SA Law Society supports increasing bushfire compensation

The Law Society of South Australia has thrown its support behind increasing firefighter entitlements for volunteers in...

20 February 2020

By Naomi Neilson

ISS advised on South Australia PPP Project

K&L Gates has advised ISS on South Australia Schools Public Private Partnership.

11 February 2020

By Tony Zhang

Lipman Karas co-founder appointed chair of SA Legal Services Commission

The principal and co-founder of Lipman Karas has been named as the new chair for the Legal Services Commission in South...

31 January 2020

By Jerome Doraisamy

Lawyers must improve on educating the public about the law

The legal profession faces a challenge to get better at educating the public about how people can use the law to help...

15 January 2020

By Tony Zhang

SA Law Society offers free legal advice for disaster-affected communities

The Law Society of South Australia has reminded persons across The Wine State that free legal advice is available for...

07 January 2020

By Jerome Doraisamy

Concerns about veterans and the criminal justice system

Organisations that work with men and women who have served in the Australian military have been concerned for some...

18 December 2019

By Kellie Toole and Elaine Waddell

Failure to decriminalise sex work in SA ‘utterly disappointing’

The push for decriminalisation of sex work has once again been defeated by the South Australian Parliament, meaning...

14 November 2019

By Jerome Doraisamy

Split execution and electronic signatures: Unresolved and untested

A recent judgment has posed questions about what constitutes a valid execution of a contract, write three MinterEllison...

12 November 2019

By Mike Hales, James Barrett and Dylan Hoyne