Lawyer John Adams died just days before it was discovered that up to $100 million in clients’ funds had vanished.
Lawyers are so maligned that they have their own special category of jokes:lawyer jokes.
The national broadcaster has spent more than $700,000 in defamation settlements alone over the past three years,documents filed by the ABC have revealed.
Victorian barristers and judges have spent time in Papua New Guinea providing training for the country’s student lawyers to help bolster PNG’s law and justice sector.
Zali Burrows,whose clients include former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer and convicted terrorist Hamdi Alqudsi,is pursuing her own lawyers over $12,000.
Whether as judges,witnesses or defendants,women have historically been burdened with unfair expectations in the courtrooms of Australia. But that’s changing before our eyes.
Lawyer Pat Lennon is on bail over drug charges,allegedly sustained a broken jaw in an attack and has been stuck in Malaysia for months after his passport expired. Now,he faces ‘disciplinary prosecution’ over text messages sent to another lawyer.
Lawyers describe the funding shortage as a “justice system emergency”.
For sexual assault complainants like law student Holly,the legal process remains brutal and unsatisfactory. Many argue it’s time for a full rethink.
The Andrews government’s controversial Lawyer X bill hangs in the balance,with the Greens refusing to pass the proposed laws in their current form,just an hour before they were due to be debated.
Legal experts are not convinced the government’s changes to its controversial proposed informant laws go far enough to protect the lawyer-client relationship.