Western Australia

Digital literacy key to client service delivery

The new partner-in-charge of KWM’s Perth office is on a mission to deliver efficiencies and improved client outcomes...

30 June 2020

By Jerome Doraisamy

WA passes laws to stop vulnerable people from going to jail for unpaid fines

Police in Western Australia will no longer be able to lock up people for unpaid fines after the McGowan government bill...

29 June 2020

By Tony Zhang

Legal funding boost to help Western Australia’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged

Those needing access to free legal advice in Western Australia now have a greater chance of success, with the state...

26 June 2020

By Tony Zhang

WA reforms unpaid fine laws following ‘inhumane’ death in custody

Western Australia has passed a bill to end the controversial imprisonment of residents with unpaid fines after the...

18 June 2020

By Naomi Neilson

Lawyers for Indigenous legal service charged in court 

Two Broome lawyers for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander free legal service faced charges in court for...

11 June 2020

By Naomi Neilson

WA solicitor guilty of ‘obvious and blatant’ conflict of interest

A Western Australian legal director has been found guilty of professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional...

10 June 2020

By Naomi Neilson

Global firm opens new Perth office

A global firm has opened a new Perth office in the heart of the...

27 May 2020

By Tony Zhang

Supreme Court fast tracks historic sexual abuse case

With just two months to live, a sexual abuse survivor has won a historic judgement in the first-of-its-kind case before...

27 May 2020

By Naomi Neilson

BigLaw Perth offices getting back to business

Australia’s BigLaw firms are welcoming staff back into their West Australian offices, albeit in staggered and...

19 May 2020

By Jerome Doraisamy

WA solicitor removed from roll for stealing elderly client’s life savings

A solicitor based in Perth has been struck from the roll, over a year after being sentenced to seven years behind bars...

15 May 2020

By Naomi Neilson