LawAccess NSW: the ‘brave and innovative’ experiment turns 25
This year, LawAccess NSW celebrates 25 years as the state’s primary ‘front door’ to the justice system, assisting a staggering 3.7 million customers since its…
By Henry Ea - 5 min read
Pioneers and pariahs: a century of women in law
This year marks 100 years since the law was amended to allow women to practise as lawyers.
By Tony Cunneen - 10 min read
The human cost of corporate life
Wellness is a holistic, ongoing, and very human necessity – not just a work issue. So there’s a need to move past box-ticking.
By Dominic Rolfe - 9 min read
The dream weaver
From producing feature films to helping authors protect their rights, Greg Duffy has creatively woven his interests and passions into two enviable careers.
By Lynn Elsey - 2 min read
RACS offers a lifeboat to refugees at sea with changing policies
Rapidly changing and often hostile policy environments challenge RACS staff and solicitors attempting to generate certainty for asylum seekers.
By Dominic Rolfe - 6 min read
Changing the human wrongs culture in Australia
Australian legal thinkers may need to become activists to introduce a rights-based perspective in judicial decision-making. It’s a collegiate cause – and one well worth…
By Anthony Levin - 5 min read
Out on a limb: Australia’s troubling exceptionalism on human rights
Australia is the only democratic country without a comprehensive national human rights law. Even non-democratic nations have a charter or bill of rights, excepting only…
By Professor George Williams and Daniel Reynolds - 5 min read
The next in line
Succession planning often ends up in the too-hard basket for small firms and sole practitioners, but there are many good reasons to prepare for the…
By Dominic Rolfe - 7 min read
Building a more inclusive legal system
The Opening of Law Term Dinner held at Parliament House on 1 February 2017, highlighted how it is the responsibility of all lawyers to ensure…
By Tom Bathurst AC Chief Justice of NSW - 6 min read
Flying solo
The number of people representing themselves in court is growing, with more than one in three people appearing without a lawyer in some courts.
By Dominic Rolfe - 8 min read
Fashioning diplomacy
The year ahead will be huge for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, with a controversial new US President and administration in office, ongoing conflict in Iraq…
By Julie McCrossin - 11 min read