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Victorian community legal centres get record $19m boost
A record investment of $19 million has been granted to 16 Victorian community legal
20 March 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Legal aid crisis looms unless government acts, new report warns
A first-of-its-kind national survey has revealed a looming crisis in Australia’s legal aid system, driven by chronic...
04 March 2025
By Grace Robbie
$3.9bn NAJP announced, but concerns still remain
Despite attorneys-general agreeing to a new National Access to Justice Partnership described as the “largest...
03 December 2024
By Grace Robbie
Advocates express concern over proposed Legal Aid NT service cuts
Three prominent legal organisations in the Northern Territory have expressed their “collective grave concern” over...
16 October 2024
By Grace Robbie
Legal assistance sector receives largest funding increase in 20 years
The national cabinet has committed nearly $800 million over the next five years to enhance critical legal services,...
10 September 2024
By Grace Robbie
‘A sector in crisis’: Legal assistance funding desperately needed, say advocates
Leading legal bodies in Australia have jointly issued an open letter, calling on all levels of government to address...
26 July 2024
By Grace Robbie
$125m needed to keep DV, FV services open, say CLCs
With the rise in the number of people reaching out to community legal centres to seek assistance with domestic and...
02 May 2024
By Grace Robbie
‘LGBTIQ+ specialist community legal services are at breaking point’
Legal organisations have urged the government to boost funding for community legal centres, which are currently...
02 April 2024
By Grace Robbie
Will private equity solutions become commonplace for firms amid recession?
A year on from selling a 30 per cent stake of its business to a private equity firm, Wotton + Kearney has experienced...
04 August 2023
By Lauren Croft
Child abuser slammed for ‘back-door’ action against Victoria Legal Aid
A convicted child abuser has been criticised by a Supreme Court for launching proceedings against Victoria Legal...
08 June 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Judge slams A-G’s Dept for withdrawal of funding in Cranston matter
The Attorney-General’s Department has come under fire from a Supreme Court justice in NSW over its decision to...
10 May 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
DataMesh secures $30m in funding
Australian payment software provider DataMesh Group has completed a Series A funding round, which garnered $30...
10 March 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Landmark whistleblower project to receive share in $4.8m
The Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner (VLSB+C) will provide $4.8 million in funding to improve access to...
05 December 2022
By Lauren Croft
Aqualand Group nabs $600m funding package
Hall & Wilcox has advised Aqualand Group on a new funding package, which it will utilise to complete the...
17 November 2022
By Emma Musgrave
Qualitas advised on multimillion-dollar funding package
Maddocks has advised Qualitas on its funding package worth $600
03 November 2022
By Emma Musgrave
What’s in Labor’s budget for lawyers?
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has handed down the first federal budget for the Albanese Labor government — the ALP’s first...
26 October 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
Where funding for the A-G’s Department is going
The second federal budget for 2022 has detailed additional resourcing for various justice initiatives, as well as cuts...
25 October 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
Thunderbird mining site receives $484m in funding
Thunderbird Operations and Kimberley Mineral Sands have engaged the services of global law firm Ashurst to secure $484...
20 October 2022
By Keonia Swift
‘Return to sanity’ on regulating litigation funding welcome, says Maurice Blackburn
“Hundreds of thousands of Australians” have benefited from class actions, the national plaintiff firm says, which...
17 October 2022
By Lauren Croft
Morse Micro receives $140m funding injection
Sydney-based developer of Wi-Fi HaLow microprocessors, Morse Micro, has been advised on its recent $140 million Series...
17 October 2022
By Lauren Croft
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