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Legal body warns against broadly mandating vaccine

Vaccines should not be mandated outside of high-risk areas, the Human Rights Law Centre has...

23 August 2021

By Lauren Croft

Vic Bar withdraws financial support from peak legal body

Talks between the Victorian Bar Association and the Law Council of Australia negotiating a $230,000 capitation fee have...

19 March 2021

By Naomi Neilson

Calls intensify for greater Indigenous representation in courts

With this weekend marking the 13th anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, three bodies...

12 February 2021

By Emma Musgrave

Legal body responds to Victorian bill banning LGBTI conversion therapy

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) has had its say on a bill banning conversation therapy being passed in...

09 February 2021

By Emma Musgrave

ALHR offers take on nuclear ban treaty

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) has responded to the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...

27 January 2021

By Emma Musgrave

‘Raise the age’: LCA addresses bleak findings on Australia’s criminal responsibility laws

The Law Council of Australia has responded to international findings, which highlighted how certain areas of...

25 January 2021

By Emma Musgrave

Legal body disappointed with DPP emails leaked to tabloid

The NSW Bar Association has expressed “profound disappointment” over leaked emails from the NSW DPP senior Crown...

22 January 2018

By Melissa Coade

Legal body underscores troubling silence in court

The few women who appear before the High Court of Australia have fewer opportunities to speak, according to a recent...

10 March 2017

By Jemelle Blanco