Police access SafeWA app data for murder investigation, prompting urgent law change

June 15, 2021
Andrew Levalds
Criminal Law, Public Interest & Privacy

By Evelyn Manfield Urgent legislation is being introduced into the WA Parliament today after police accessed QR code check-in information from the SafeWA app as part of a murder investigation. Attorney-General John Quigley said police had legally issued two notices for businesses…

Nicola Gobbo’s conduct ‘duplicitous, inexcusable’, final report finds

December 1, 2020
Andrew Levalds
Big Law, Ethics

By Naomi Neilson The Lawyer X inquiry’s final report has found that former barrister Nicola Gobbo’s work with Victoria Police was “inexcusable” and the community and courts are entitled to their concerns that she has undermined the law and the administration…