By CJ McKinney Doughty Street’s Althea Sonia Brown ‘improperly undermined, insulted and/or annoyed’ opposing counsel during hearing, disciplinary tribunal finds An employment law barrister at leading set Doughty Street Chambers has been fined for misconduct after mocking her more junior opponent during a…
By Cameron Houston, The Age The state’s corruption watchdog is investigating Victoria Police over allegations that information from privileged conversations between a senior member of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang and his lawyer was potentially used to build a legal…
Mining billionaire says world-first prosecution aims to prevent Australians being scammed through clickbait advertising on social media By Cait Kelly The Guardian The Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest has launched criminal proceedings against Facebook alleging the tech giant breached federal anti-money laundering laws…
By Tammy Mills and Adam Cooper Cleaver Greene, the fictional cocaine-snorting, alcohol-swilling, lovable larrikin lawyer from TV’s Rake is hardly a conventional poster boy for Victoria’s courts. Nevertheless, Richard Roxburgh – who played Greene, the walking scandal of a criminal defence barrister,…
By Naomi Neilson Although a recent High Court decision to appeal a family law matter after it found the personal relationship between a trial judge and a barrister “particularly troubling” may inform impartiality in ongoing cases moving forward, one lawyer…
By Aja Styles, WA Today West Australian Attorney-General John Quigley and his legal advisors have been caught in the centre of an unprecedented dispute between the president of the Children’s Court and one of his magistrates. Magistrate Catherine Crawford has…
By Naomi Neilson An order has been made to strike out the name of the lawyer who counselled fathers of female genital mutilation victims to lie to police, an offence that the Court of Appeal said “strikes at the heart of…
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…
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…