Criminal lawyers at Slater and Gordon have curated a list of some of Australia’s most bizarre criminal offences. This content is available exclusively to Lawyers Weekly premium members. If you’re ...

Mid this month, the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA) welcomed the appointments of six new magistrates, five of which are women. They are Julie Kearney, Caroline Jenkins, Samantha ...

Earlier this week, A-G Symes welcomed judicial registrar and Law Institute of Victoria board director Majella Foster-Jones, barrister and judicial registrar Michael Gurvich, Law and Advocacy Centre ...

The State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia (SAT) has reprimanded and fined Perth legal practitioner Paul Andrew Hardie $20,000, finding that his conduct “fell substantially below a ...

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has elevated 52 of its lawyers across its Australian offices to the position of senior associate, effective 1 July. This content is available exclusively to Lawyers ...

Anthony Watson, a former partner of the now PwC-owned tax advisory firm Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills (GHSF), claimed he suffered career and financial detriments after blowing the whistle on ...

Senior solicitor Leigh Johnson of Leigh Johnson Lawyers was found to not be a “fit and proper person” and had her practising certificate suspended by the NSW Law Society at the end of last month, ...

Mouna Youssef, who was admitted to practice in 2012 and opened her own office as a sole practitioner in 2015, was the subject of a routine trust account inspection from the Law Society of NSW, with ...

Speaking with Lawyers Weekly, Emma Howard, national mental health manager and in-house psychologist at Clayton Utz, along with Emily Woodlands, health, safety and wellbeing manager at the firm, ...

Being part of a network that makes a significant difference to the lives of Australian people is what motivates the team at Prolegis Lawyers. Set up in 2001 by former Mallesons Stephen Jaques and ...

Following a review into the legal profession, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) raised $28 million just by securing overdue lodgements and detecting omitted income in returns filed by practitioners ...

Current High Court Justice the Honourable Stephen Gageler AC has been ranked most liberal in the last 25 years, trailing just behind justice Michael Kirby AC CMG in a soon-to-be-published study. Of ...