ASIC has released an immunity policy for certain contraventions of the Corporations Act including market manipulation and insider trading which only applies to the first individual to report the conduct.
Federal Circuit Court and Family Court of Australia Chief Justice Will Alstergren has broken his silence on last week’s controversial passage of legislation to amalgamate the two courts.
Former judges and legal support services have expressed their dismay at the passage of legislation that will see the Family Court combined with the Federal Circuit Court.
The Court of Appeal has set aside a conviction and ordered a retrial after it found a man was denied the right to a fair trial in a “small regional town”.
Queensland Law Society rang in the new year by hosting its largest post-COVID social event at Brisbane’s QEII Courts of Law complex on Thursday 12 February.