Senior barrister Sue Chrysanthou is reportedly facing court action to prevent her from continuing to act for Christian Porter in the former attorney-general’s defamation case against the ABC.
The Australian Law Reform Commission has suggested judges should transfer applications for their own disqualification to a separate duty judge to decide, after hearing concerns about how the “bias blind spot” may operate in the existing self-disqualification procedure.
The director of building company Modscape is fighting to access Gadensâ advice concerning an allegedly false and malicious letter sent to the Victorian Building Authority which questioned his financial probity.
A judge will hear arguments by suspended lawyer Serene Teffaha, who filed a class action against the state over lockdown restrictions, over whether her clients can be made to supply their details to a Hall & Wilcox lawyer who was appointed to take over her firm.
A Sydney barrister who has admitted to sexually harassing a young female solicitor in a NSW Supreme Court conference room is facing disciplinary action for unsatisfactory professional conduct.
A former Slater & Gordon lawyer has been reprimanded by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal for “disgraceful and dishonourable” conduct in falsifying client affidavits but has avoided having her practicing certificate wholly suspended because of past mental health issues and current efforts at rehabilitation.
A former barrister has been struck off the roll of practitioners in NSW after it was found that he practised in the state for six years without a local practising certificate and lied to the Queensland Bar Association about the location of his practice.
An inquiry into whether Christian Porter is a fit and proper person to serve as Attorney-General following allegations that he raped a teenage girl more than 30 years ago would âadvanceâ the rule of law, a NSW Supreme Court judge has said.
Once high-flying barrister Norman O’Bryan might seek to challenge a refusal by the judge overseeing the Banksia class action to revisit his abandoned defence and accept into evidence a document he claims proved he did not secretly hold shares in the funder behind the case.
The litigation funding company controlled by the late solicitor Mark Elliott has told a court of its “remorse and regret” for its misconduct in the Banksia Securities class action, a case that has been described as the “darkest chapter in Victoria’s legal history”.