Global shifts, local impacts: recent cases on gender dysphoria

Recent Australian cases reveal the legal and clinical complexities of hormone treatment for young people amid global policy shifts and contested expert evidence.

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Family law: July 2025

The family courts discuss capital gains tax deductions, the finality of parenting orders, procedural fairness and false testimony in property adjustment proceedings.

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Codification and companion animals: important elements of the family law reforms

Pets, power and property: how Australia’s family law overhaul redefines fairness in separation and the consequences of family violence.

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Family law: June 2025

Decisions on business valuation, seeking unpaid entitlements from third parties, parenting orders and commercial surrogacy, and parental fixation on gender affirmation.

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Family law: May 2025

Decisions addressing expert report use, exclusion of convictions evidence, receiving advice from your own practice and declining to make orders by consent.

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Family law: April 2025

Decisions addressing parenting applications involving artificial conception, non-disclosure of assets and apprehended bias.

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Can unbundled legal services rescue family law disputes?

In a jurisdiction awash in self-represented litigants, this different approach to legal practice might be key to enhancing access to justice.

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Family law: March 2025

Decisions addressing the definition of family violence, variation of parental orders, de facto property adjustment and subpoena objections. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.

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Family law: February 2025

Decisions addressing de facto relationship length, application of recent amendments and determining property value. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.

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Family law: December 2024

Cases discussing the Stanford and Harman precedents, AI use in litigation, and consent orders with mentally disabled people. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.

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