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4 in 10 disciplined lawyers struck off, exclusive data reveals
Exclusive Lawyers Weekly data revealed that around 40 per cent of lawyers facing disciplinary action have been struck...
08 October 2025
By Naomi Neilson
ACT tribunal bans 2 lawyers from practising
Two lawyers who were involved in the swearing of an affidavit that contained false information have been publicly...
08 October 2025
By Naomi Neilson
ACT solicitor penalised for cost disclosure failures
A tribunal affirmed a decision of the ACT Law Society to discipline a barrister and solicitor over a cost disclosure...
07 October 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Reprimand for lawyer over failures with elderly client
A lawyer admitted he failed to take proper steps to ensure an elderly client had the capacity to execute a will and...
06 October 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Immediate suspension for lawyer charged over alleged kidnapping
A Sydney criminal lawyer facing kidnapping charges had his practising certificate immediately suspended.
03 October 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Struck-off parents, private investigator: Further details about Sydney solicitor’s dodgy creditor scheme emerge
A recommendation has been made to remove the name of a disgraced legal practitioner due to her conduct in a misleading...
02 October 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Alleged impostor lawyer stuck with legal ban
A Queensland woman has failed to shake off an interim injunction that has prevented her from acting as an alleged sham...
30 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Director, solicitor hits back at order to retain lawyer
A law firm director fought back against an order that he retain a lawyer to act on his practice’s behalf, telling a...
26 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Should students face sanctions for AI use (like lawyers are)?
Earlier this month, a Victorian lawyer made history by becoming the first Australian practitioner to face professional...
24 September 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
WA lawyers under fire for ‘unnecessary’ extension application
A Western Australian judge was critical of several lawyers for bringing an application that “should never have been...
24 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Strike-off for lawyer who misappropriated $6m meant for charities, hospital
A Sydney lawyer who used part of the $6 million he misappropriated from two clients’ estates to purchase a...
23 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Court critical of costs in director’s fight with firm over ATO debt
Following a win against his former firm over $255,000 in tax debts, an NSW lawyer asked the court for a costs order of...
23 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Lawyer avoids personal costs order for ‘serious neglect’
A lawyer’s failure to file a notice of ceasing to act was found to amount to “serious neglect, incompetence or...
22 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Client sues NSW lawyer over $10k refund
Frustrated with the way his criminal matter was handled, an NSW man attempted to win back the $10,000 he paid to a...
19 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
NSW solicitor, accountant hit with 10-year ASIC ban
A solicitor and accountant who advised clients to invest in his own companies was barred from providing financial...
18 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Expelled migration agent twice rejected from legal profession
Two years on from his failed bid to join the legal profession, a disgraced migration agent made yet another...
17 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Qld lawyer jailed for child exploitation material to be struck off
A Queensland law lecturer who was caught with dozens of explicit images of victims he secretly filmed, including an...
16 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Court refers NSW solicitor to disciplinary body
Rather than deterring the Court of Appeal from making a referral to the NSW Legal Services Commissioner, a...
12 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
SA solicitor loses judicial review into alleged practising certificate failures
A South Australian practitioner’s judicial review application into a disciplinary decision relating to fee conditions...
11 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Lawyer cannot shake vexatious litigant order
Emmanuel Ezekiel-Hart, a lawyer who has brought dozens of proceedings against the ACT Law Society, was unable to...
11 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson