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Jill RowbothamLegal Affairs Correspondent

Jill Rowbotham is an experienced journalist who has been a foreign correspondent as well as bureau chief in Perth and Sydney, opinion and media editor, deputy editor of The Weekend Australian Magazine and higher education writer.

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Electoral rolls key to Indigenous jurors

Labor legal affairs spokesman Mark Dreyfus has called for a concerted effort to get more Indigenous people on to the nation’s electoral rolls.

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 12 MAR 2022. FEE MAY APPLY. Room service at the Sydney Harbour Marriott. Source: Supplied

Working remotely? Do it here in style

If you’re going to attempt the double act of business and pleasure, the five-star Sydney Harbour Marriott has you covered.

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Legal actionLegal Affairs

Brown’s foundation says officials don’t give a hoot about this owl

The Bob Brown Foundation’s long war of attrition has taken flight again with the Tasmanian Masked Owl.

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COURTSLegal Affairs

Paul Kabai and Pabai Pabai - Looking at the sea . Boigu. , Paul Kabai and Pabai Pabi, have instigated a climate change class action against the Commonwealth Government alleging a threat of inundation of the Torres Strait Islands., Photo Credit - Talei Elu

Islanders face battle over climate class action

Torres Strait Islanders allege federal government failed to protect vulnerable residents from rising sea levels and worsening weather.

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27/02/2022: Karina Popova is a Melbourne barrister born and partly raised and schooled in Ukraine. PIC: Simone Schroeder

Minister confirms fast-tracking of family visas

Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has advised an Australian with family trapped in Kyiv that her relatives are eligible for visa fast-tracking.

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10/8/18: Director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Libby Lyons, who is one of Enid Lyons' granddaughters. It is 75 years since her grandmother became the first woman to deliver a maiden speech in the House of Representatives. John Feder/The Australian

Deals in workplace ‘entrench inequality’

The Fair Work Act is inadvertently unfair to women, minorities and carers but AI could help correct enterprise agreements.

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LEGAL AFFAIRSLegal Affairs

File pic Justice Peter Applegarth Trial division Photographer Philip Norrish NO BY LINE

Judge slams lawyers over excessive fees

A Supreme Court justice was so concerned about the fees Shine Lawyers planned to charge a vulnerable client that he drew them to the attention of Queensland’s Legal Services Commissioner.

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Legal affairsLegal Affairs

Mr Gary Adler, Chief Digital Officer, MinterEllison lawyers. Picture - Supplied

Legal talent attracted to firms with hi-tech

Ramping up technology rivals the need to foster talent in Australian law firms’ priorities this year.

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The new President of the Law Society of NSW (2022), Joanne van der Plaat.

Legal lockdown changes a mixed bag: Law Society

Pandemic restrictions brought welcome improvements in the legal system, as well as the difficulties of remote operation.

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Justice Andrew Greenwood , with an iPad in his chambers , as the Court adapts to modern technologies, in the Federal Court building , Brisbane.

Top judge intervened in row on registrars

A Federal Court judge was so incensed by the reorganisation plans drawn up by its most senior bureaucrats that he took the unusual step of intervening.

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