Cats and Dogs May Soon be Treated with Medicinal Cannabis
An Australian company is undertaking ground breaking research to determine whether medicinal cannabis products could be used to treat medical conditions in family pets. After a successful trial on dogs, CannPal is now expanding its testing to our furry feline...
Lawyer Who Showed His Testicles to Client is Struck Off
Back in 2012, Mr and Mrs H retained Boulevarde Lawyers in the lakeside suburb of Toronto in Lake Macquarie to prepare documents and find them legal representation in Vanuatu in relation to the sale of drilling machines. The sole principal...
A Wellness Guide for Lawyers: An Interview with Author Jerome Doraisamy
The 2007 Beaton Consulting and beyondblue national depression initiative revealed depression amongst legal professionals had reached alarming levels. When compared with other professionals, lawyers were found to have experienced the highest levels of depressive symptoms. Indeed, studies have found that one...
Law Firms Warned Against ‘Ambulance Chasing’ and ‘Claim Farming’.
The Victorian Legal Services Commissioner, Fiona Mcleay, has issued a bulletin warning the state’s lawyers against engaging in unethical practices to lure clients, such as “claim farming” and “ambulance chasing”. Giving lawyers a bad name “This paints an appalling picture...
Thirty Six Women Have Been Violently Killed in Australia This Year
Last Sunday, two women were killed in acts of violence perpetrated on opposite sides of the country. At around 4 am that morning, NSW police attended a Griffith residence to find 27-year-old Nicole Wetzler dead in a rear shed on the...
Indictable Drug Supply Cases Can Now be Finalised in the Local Court
Until recently, cases of drug supply which involved more than the ‘indictable quantity’ but less than the commercial quantity could not be finalised in the NSW Local Court - they were ‘strictly indictable’ which meant they had to be committed to...
New Laws Will Allow the Use of Military to Break Protests
The Turnbull government recently introduced legislation into parliament designed to lower the threshold for calling out the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to assist state police forces with public incidents. The Defence Amendment (Call Out of the Australian Defence Force) Bill 2018 revises...
Brain Stimulation Could Reduce Likelihood of Offending
A new study has found that electrical brain stimulation could reduce the likelihood of offending, which researchers hope may help to subdue the violent impulses of psychopaths and other offenders in the lead up to their release into the community....
Report Recommends Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility
The Queensland government is considering a recommendation by former Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 years to 12 years. The minimum age that a child can be criminally prosecuted in Australia is...
Northern Territory and ACT Fight to Legalise Euthanasia
The Northern Territory and ACT may soon have control over their euthanasia laws, after a motion was recently introduced in the Federal Senate. The motion, brought by Liberal Democrats senator David Leyonhjelm, would see territory governments free to legislate on...
