The Department of Premier and Cabinet will spend $6 million over the next four years to establish a four-person in-house legal team.
Courts are often accused of being out of touch with the community,so there’s an argument for Erin Patterson facing justice on her home patch. But her case has a long way to go.
A NSW tribunal found the former barrister showed a law student a sex toy during a job interview and played a pornographic film in front of a researcher.
John Velos,who is a former mayor of the City of Prahran,is appealing a forgery conviction in Athens after a family legal dispute over the control of a resort on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea.
Slater and Gordon chair James MacKenzie has beaten cancer twice. Has it resulted in him treating life differently?
A senior partner asked lawyer Stefanie Costi to put on his boots for him in front of colleagues. After speaking out about her experience,Costi said she has been inundated with thousands of replies.
In the early 1970s the legal profession had barely embraced having women in the law,before Deirdre O’Connor helped change that.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has the Environmental Defenders Office in his sights,announcing he would defund firm if his party was returned to government.
The EDO was the subject of a stinging critique by Federal Court Justiace Natalie Charlesworth on Monday.
The system for victim compensation is broken for everyone,but it’s particularly harsh on survivors of child sexual abuse.
Queensland lawyers can’t even be relied upon for “simple professional courtesies”,according to Legal Services Commissioner Megan Mahon.