Canberra barristers are being forced to foot the bill for their client’s cases due to the chronic underfunding of Legal Aid, as the ACT government slashes critical funds to community legal services.
Victoria’s prosecution office has been slammed for using taxpayer funds to defend a ‘minor’ remuneration action, in which a solicitor was seeking a grading review for a $1 per year pay rise.
NT Health and representatives of Zachary Rolfe have criticised counsel assisting the coroner in the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, while other parties have come to her defence.
The judiciary is exposed to an ‘ever-present danger’ of becoming politicised, a report from Australia’s peak judicial body says, while calling for more Indigenous judicial appointments to make the justice system ‘more legitimate’.
A 15-year-old has been granted access to cross-sex hormones despite a Family Court judge citing a legal void of the consequences of people regretting their change of gender.
A Sydney construction boss has been ordered to pay thousands to his ex-secretary after a court found he extorted her for sex, with texts revealing he encouraged her to get an abortion after she fell pregnant.
A judge has been reinstated after being sidelined for accusing the state prosecution office of running baseless rape trials, despite the judicial watchdog saying he shouldn’t hear criminal matters ‘for the foreseeable future’.
The Attorney-General has refused to answer questions over whether he would exercise his powers to ignore the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants against Israeli leaders.
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Andrew Bell of NSW has issued a sweeping direction effectively banning lawyers from using artificial intelligence to create crucial evidence papers.
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