A tribunal will recommend that a Perth solicitor be struck from the roll of practitioners after being found to have engaged in professional misconduct for failing to comply with requests for information by Western Australia’s legal complaints body.
The attorney-general of South Australia wants to intervene in a High Court appeal of a ruling that put Judge Salvatore Vasta on the hook for a manâs false imprisonment, saying the judge was not entitled to immunity but that police and correctional officers were.
A barrister who had a âclose personal relationshipâ with a judge presiding over her case has been suspended and fined $10,000, after the High Court ruled their communications gave rise to the appearance of bias and justified recusal.Â
A former judge who led an inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann is facing a corruption probe from the ACT Integrity Commission for leaking his report to the media.
A Sydney lawyer has been struck from the roll of practitioners following her conviction for misappropriating more than $180,000 from the non-profit organisation she co-founded.
A judge has found that a law firm failed in its duty to provide ongoing costs disclosures, in a fight over a legal bill that was double the size of the last estimate provided, rejecting an argument that the client should have understood the charges would climb.
A prominent Perth lawyer acting for ex-defence minister Linda Reynolds in defamation cases against former staffer Brittany Higgins and her partner has been fined and reprimanded for two counts of professional misconduct in a separate matter.
A Sydney solicitor has lost his bid to summarily dismiss the legal watchdogâs case alleging he set up misleading crowdfunding pages seeking funding for class actions over government orders requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, as well as another class action that was never filed.
A judge has criticised a Network Ten solicitor who signed off on former presenter Lisa Wilkinsonâs Logies speech, given on the eve Bruce Lehrmann’s criminal trial, saying she had failed to appreciate her duties to the court.
A tribunal has found prominent barrister Charles Waterstreet guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct for sexually harassing three women, but declined to find he was unfit to practice after accepting expert evidence that undiagnosed mental illness âwas the dominant causal factor” behind his actions.