Regulators of the legal profession in NSW, Victoria, and WA have released a joint statement outlining ethical principles for the responsible use of AI by lawyers. The guidance aims to protect ...

Mark Regev, former senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been charged with advocating genocide under Australian law. Regev was served with the charges in Melbourne, with his ...

Richard Niall has been announced as the new chief justice of the Victoria Supreme Court. Niall takes the place of Anne Ferguson, who retires in February 2025. His swearing-in ceremony as the 13th ...

The Commerce Commission has outlined its compliance and enforcement priorities for 2024-25, identifying key sectors and practices that will be the focus of its regulatory activities. The priorities, ...

Earlier this week, Thomas Huthwaite talked to NZ Lawyer about being a leader at AJ Park. In the second half of this June interview, the IP expert, who is also quite involved in the arts, shares his ...

ASIC has initiated legal action against HSBC Bank Australia Limited (HSBC Australia), alleging systemic failures in protecting customers from unauthorised transactions and scams. The proceedings, ...

Longtime Cleveland Clinic CLO David Rowan has made the jump to executive search and talent advisory firm BarkerGilmore LLC, where he will be a strategic advisor and leadership development coach. In ...

Key Media’s Global Best in Law 2024 recognizes this year’s top legal award winners across the special reports featured in Canadian Lawyer, Australian Lawyer, and NZ Lawyer. In 2024, law firms and ...

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has announced the appointment of eight new judges to the Federal Court. The new appointees are Samuel Vandongen, Cameron Moore SC, Nicholas Owens SC, Professor James ...

The federal government has introduced a new educational resource aimed at enhancing the justice system's handling of sexual assault cases. The resource entitled Understanding adult sexual assault ...

Law student diversity did not drop following the US Supreme Court's 2023 decision to prohibit affirmative action in college admissions, according to the American Bar Association. Reuters reported ...

The High Court upheld a decision granting a farm worker ownership of a property under proprietary estoppel, ruling that his reliance on long-standing promises made it unconscionable to deny him the ...