By WA state political reporter Keane Bourke ABC News In short: WA's Legal Practice Board is tasked with admitting lawyers to practice law and handling complaints about them, but five separate law groups have described their "unprecedented loss of confidence" in…
By Legal Cheek Dressing down A judge has reportedly given a barrister a dressing down after he appeared in court via video link without any trousers. The barrister — who, fortunately for his sake, has not been named — left court…
By Angus Simpson Legal Cheek “I consider that it would have been negligent for this barrister, if she used AI and did not check it, to put that text into her pleading,” says Mr Justice Ritchie The case concerned a homeless claimant…
By Thomas Connelly Unless it’s a major emergency 🚨 Mayer Brown is urging partners not to disturb associates while on holiday — unless it’s a major emergency, of course. The guidance comes courtesy of the firm’s UK managing partner Dominic Griffiths, who…
By Rona Ankrah Camille Vasquez joins US firm Brown Rudnick’s partnership US law firm Brown Rudnick has promoted Camille Vasquez to partner less than a week after she helped secure Johnny Depp’s $15 million (£12 million) jury verdict against ex-wife Amber…
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 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 Aishah Hussain Law Society cautions ‘practical barriers’ around qualifications Junior lawyers in the UK may soon be able to practise in Australia without having to requalify following the news this week of a post-Brexit trade agreement with Australia. The development…
By Naomi Neilson Proceedings have been launched in the Victorian Supreme Court to remove gangland criminal barrister Nicola Gobbo from the roll of practitioners. Just months before an explosive report is due that details the Lawyer X human source saga,…
By Nicola Berkovic The Family Court Chief Justice is at odds with two of his colleagues as to whether a judge and barrister who met for drinks and coffee and exchanged “numerous” text messages while a case was under way…