Police Listening to Phone Calls between Lawyers and Clients – The Erosion of Client Legal Privilege
Legal professional privilege, known in NSW as ‘client legal privilege’, has long been accepted as a central tenet of the justice system; providing that communications between lawyers and their clients should be exempt from disclosure. The privilege has been described...
Queensland Barrister who was found Guilty of Tax Offences tipped to become Magistrate
We have published a number of blogs about lawyers who have engaged in professional misconduct and unethical behaviour. In many cases, these lawyers were ‘struck off’ - meaning that that they lost their licence to practice law. In a profession...
Sydney Siege – How Was It Allowed to Happen?
The Sydney Siege has raised more questions than it has answered. If Man Haron Monis had survived Monday’s heinous crime, the charges he could have faced may have included detain for advantage, kidnapping, weapons charges, terrorism, murder - and the...
Craig Thomson found ‘Not Guilty’ of 49 Fraud Charges
Many would be aware of the highly publicised controversy surrounding disgraced former Federal MP and Health Services Union secretary, Craig Thomson. 50 year-old Thomson is alleged to have committed numerous acts of fraud, after a Health Services Union secretary identified...
Police Blitz Targets over 100 Alleged Shoplifters in Sydney
When December rolls around each year, the stores are filled with people frantically trying to cross everything off their shopping lists before Christmas hits. But it’s also the time that, for whatever reason, shoplifters hit the shops in record numbers,...
Celebrity No Barrier to Charges of Negligent Driving in NSW
Being a celebrity is no barrier to falling foul of traffic laws, as football commentator Mark Bosnich recently discovered. An alleged incident involving a cyclist has led to Bosnich being charged with driving at a speed or manner dangerous, and...
Juvenile Killers of Janine Balding – Should they ever be released?
The imprisonment of two teenage convicted killers for life has been ruled inhumane and a contravention of human rights by the United Nations. The two were sentenced to life imprisonment for the abduction, rape and murder of Janine Balding in...
New Justice Appointed to High Court of Australia
A few weeks ago we reported that two current High Court Justices, Susan Crennan and Kenneth Hayne, will be due to retire next year when they reach the age of 70. Their imminent departure sparked discussion within the legal profession...
UN Finds Australian Government Guilty of Human Rights Abuses
Prisoners being sedated, tied to chairs and subjected to physical abuse - it sounds like something out of Guantanamo Bay, but in reality these horrific activities occur much closer to home. Earlier this week, the United Nations Human Rights Commission...
Drug Detection Dogs Reportedly Providing False Leads
It has been revealed that the majority of strip searches by police based on indications from drug detection dogs do not result in any drugs being found. Government data obtained by the NSW Greens and reported in the media reveals...
