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A recommendation was made to strike off the name of a Queensland solicitor who failed to pay almost $300,000 in superannuation contributions for six former employees.
A barrister has been named as the next appointment to the NSW District Court, following the retirement of Judge Martin Sides QC.
A recommendation has been made to remove the name of a Queensland lawyer from the roll after he was convicted and received a suspended jail sentence for making false declarations.
Local neobank Judo Bank has revealed that some of its data have been affected by the cyber attack on BigLaw firm HWL Ebsworth.
A police legal officer and ethics lecturer failed to overturn a finding that she was “careless and incompetent” when she permitted an unqualified person to witness an affidavit and created a risk the ...
A partner and senior associate have left Sydney-based firm Kardos Scanlan for national practice Hicksons, in its commercial dispute resolution team.
Sovereign citizens who defamed a solicitor in emails to high-profile members of the profession will spend a month behind bars because they tried to have the matter aired in a faux “Common Law Court”.
The NSW Attorney-General announced a number of new appointments at the Supreme Court, District Court and Coroners Court.
The director of a West Perth firm has been suspended while he waits for the Supreme Court to decide if his name should be struck from the roll.
Managerialism may have created the appearance of sleek, optimised law firms, but Justice Michael Lee said the ideology is “theatre” that has eroded professionalism and blinded once-ambitious and ...
The three directors of the notorious law firm Erudite Legal made their third recusal application, less than a month after successfully convincing the first Federal Court judge to reallocate the matter ...
A Melbourne-based barrister has been found guilty on two counts of unsatisfactory professional conduct and two counts of professional conduct for, among other things, a non-appearance at a County ...