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Leading barristers have come out in support of the proposal to amend the Constitution to enshrine a Voice to Parliament to represent First Australians.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese breached workplace law by cutting the number of staff allocated to cross-benchers from four to one, according to new court documents in a lawsuit by Independent Monique Ryan's chief of staff.
Reforms that would make lawyers subject to the anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing regime have received mixed reviews from legal professionals, with one expert saying the regime was a “blunt instrument” and could put lawyers in an ill-suited policing role.
In March and July 2022, Lawyerly published articles about Griffin Coal. The articles inadvertently referred to Mladen Ninkov, which was an error.
Reforms to simplify and modernise Australia's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regime will see lawyers and accountants subject to the regulations for the first time.
The Federal Court’s new Chief Justice Debra Mortimer will bring a sense of adventure to her role as top judge, which she foreshadowed will be approached holistically in a welcome ceremony before pre-eminent members of the legal community.
Senior restructuring and insolvency lawyers have welcomed a novel ruling that found a liquidator was entitled to claim his costs ahead of the preferred claims of company employees, but questions remain about the "potentially difficult" interaction between two conflicting priority regimes.
According to a new report that details the highs and lows of litigation funder cuts in class action settlements, funders' returns have dropped considerably since contingency fees were introduced in Victoria.
The number of funded class actions in Australia has dipped in the two years since contingency fees were introduced in Victoria, but litigation funders are still important players in group proceedings, a new report shows.
Approved settlements in class actions since the regime was enacted are set to top $8 billion this year, according to a new report ranking the busiest litigation funders, which found most class action mega settlements were not funder backed.