The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal affirmed the decision of the Victorian Bar to refuse Roona Nida Fazal’s August 2021 and May 2023 applications to renew her practising certificate. This ...

Last week, DLA Piper named three new partners in Australia as part of a global cohort of 74 new partners. This content is available exclusively to Lawyers Weekly premium members. Now, the firm has ...

While representing a man charged with using a carriage service to make a threat, criminal lawyer Anthony De Fraine posted comments on Facebook which were “likely to bring the profession into disrepute ...

Earlier this month, new figures from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) revealed that just under half of the 62 law firms with comparable data had a worse total remuneration gender pay gap ...

The Allan Labor government in Victoria has taken a “significant step” towards clearing the residential tenancy cases backlog and reducing wait times across the board with the appointment of 20 new ...

Based on negative reports from a Board of Examiners and the Law Society of South Australia, the Supreme Court of South Australia found Ryan Raygan was not a fit and proper person to practise law and ...

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With sustainability risk-taking on a new meaning in just under six months, global law firm Ashurst has launched its first digital offering to help funds, banks and other financial services firms ...

The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal handed Kade Eames a public reprimand and an order to complete further education, having found his conduct during family law proceedings amounted to ...

A law firm based in Napier, on New Zealand’s North Island, is actively investigating a cyber security incident that led to a “small proportion” of its data being compromised by a “malicious ...

Joseph Guss, a solicitor of 60 years’ standing, was found to have engaged in professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct in respect of three separate client matters, two of which ...

The NSW Law Society was granted leave to withdraw proceedings against George Sideris, a lawyer who was struck off in mid-2025 for his “grossly discourteous, coarse, disrespectful, gratuitously ...