Ellie Dudley

Ellie DudleyLegal Affairs Correspondent

Ellie Dudley is the legal affairs correspondent at The Australian covering courts, crime, and changes to the legal industry. She was previously a reporter on the NSW desk and, before that, one of the newspaper’s cadets.

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A policeman inspects a torched car early on Thursday. Picture Onscene Bondi. Federal Court judge Michael Lee. Picture: Britta Campion

Outraged judge Michael Lee demands action amid anti-Semitic surge

In an extraordinary and deeply personal speech, the Federal Court judge declared any attack on the Jewish community is an ‘attack upon my wife and my children’.

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Chief people officer Alicia Gleeson, left, and chief executive Dina Tutungi.

Slater + Gordon sued over staff underpayment scandal

The Labor-friendly law firm has been accused of deliberately miscalculating staff leave entitlements, failing to immediately reconcile the underpayments, and sacking the human resources boss who blew the whistle.

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Alice Springs Local Court. Picture: Gera Kazakov

Alice Springs court staffing ‘incentivising guilty pleas’

An alarming email to staff at Alice Springs Local Court has whistleblowers warning the NT justice system is now teetering ‘on a cliff edge’.

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North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chief executive Priscilla Atkins leaves the Federal Court where she is suing NAAJA over an employment dispute.Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Aboriginal legal service issues shock apology to ousted CEO

The NAAJA has apologised ‘without reservation’ to Priscilla Atkins after the Federal Court found its board unlawfully sacked her after she raised allegations of corruption against senior staff.

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ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum. Picture: Albert McKnight

Barristers rebuff top judge on rape

Canberra’s peak barristers body says Lucy McCallum’s claims she does not understand why jurors ‘find it so hard to believe’ rape allegations may lead people to believe juries are ‘getting it wrong’ on sexual assault.

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18-11-2024 - Broadcaster Alan Jones leaves Day Street police station after being granted bail. Photo: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Ninth person comes forward; Jones faces two new charges

Child Abuse Squad detectives have charged Alan Jones with an additional two offences following charges on Monday of multiple counts of alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences against nine men.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 18, 2024: L-R Lawyers Bryan Wrench and Christopher Murphy at the Day St Police Station, in Sydney. Veteran radio broadcaster Alan Jones, 83, has been arrested over indecent assault and sexual touching allegations spanning two decades. Picture: NewsWire / Dylan Coker

Solicitor to the stars called into Jones drama

When detectives arrived at Alan Jones’s harbourside apartment to arrest him over allegations of indecent assault, a familiar face was running just a few beats behind them.

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Amelia Saw, former journalist, suing Channel Seven over her time working for Seven’s controversial Spotlight program. Pic Supplied.

Seven quietly settles case with ex-Spotlight producer

Seven has finalised a case brought by ex-Spotlight producer Amelia Saw which threatened to expose the network’s ‘dirty linen’, but the details of the settlement are to be kept a secret.

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Arthur Moses SC, the former president of the Law Council of Australia, and ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum

Judge’s comments on rape trials ‘unfair’

A top criminal silk says it is unfair to suggest jurors may ‘find it hard to believe’ rape allegations, criticising sweeping assertions made by the head of the ACT Supreme Court.

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NJCA Council Chair, Chief Justice Lucy McCallum

Chief judge puts culture wars on trial

Lucy McCallum says ‘culture wars’ could be causing the acquittal of accused rapists, declaring she does not understand why jurors ‘find it so hard to believe’ sexual assault allegations.

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