Can gossip be news? Explore how Australia’s new privacy tort challenges media freedoms and redefines journalism in the age of celebrity and digital storytelling.
By Matthew Richardson SC - 1 min read
With ASIC sharpening its focus, this article unpacks the evolving legal landscape of directors’ duties and the rising personal risks for Australian company directors.
By Pamela Hanrahan - 2 min read
Pets, power and property: how Australia’s family law overhaul redefines fairness in separation and the consequences of family violence.
By Jacky Campbell - 1 min read
How do companies ‘think’? Learn how courts attribute intention, knowledge, and conduct to corporations through systems, agents and evolving legal doctrines.
By Catherine Bembrick, Alexander Vial and Mitchell Donohue - 1 min read
From heated exchanges to prior roles, recent cases show how apprehended bias is reshaping judicial accountability — and why reform may be on the horizon.
By Tim Maybury - 2 min read
Not your client, not your problem? Think again. How third parties can hold solicitors accountable for what they say and do.
By Malcolm Cameron and Gina Tasoulis - 2 min read
With fines and increased enforcement looming, legal advisors must act now to ensure privacy policies meet new ADM disclosure standards under the Privacy Act.
By Alex Kotova - 1 min read
The Full Federal Court’s ruling raises critical questions about legal advice on complex financial product definitions and cryptocurrency regulation.
By Matthew Lo and Sophie Barbour - 2 min read
Our committees discuss Duties Act 1977 amendments, psychological injury liability, community justice centres and environmental law reform, and much more.
By The Law Society Policy and Practice Department - 2 min read
Precedent-setting cases on group costs orders as a rationale for transferring proceedings, native title extinguishment and unlawful detention.
By Tasman Ash Fleming - 1 min read
The Federal Court considers when a court can inspect allegedly privileged documents and the definition of ‘workplace law’ in the Fair Work Act 2009.
By Paris Hart - 10 min read
Decisions on business valuation, seeking unpaid entitlements from third parties, parenting orders and commercial surrogacy, and parental fixation on gender affirmation.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min read
Precedent on guilty plea discounts when they are not originally accepted, and balancing reduced moral culpability and general deterrence in sentencing.
By Thomas Spohr - 1 min read