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The Law Council of Australia (LCA) has backed the government’s acceptance of recommendations made by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security following its inquiry into press freedom.
Divorce courts clogged with year-long backlog of cases With 100,000 cases clogging Australia’s divorce courts in the past year, some court hearings have already been pushed back to 2022. News by Natasha Bita Premium Content Subscriber only Divorce courts are clogged with a year-long backlog of cases, as highly-paid judges enjoy up to 10 weeks' holidays while postponing court hearings until 2022. Divorce disputes are heard in two courts - the Family Court, which fielded a five-year high of 21,054 applications in 2019/2020, or the Federal Circuit Co...
Media Watch, Gadfly thought Emeritus Professor David Flint must have disappeared from the mortal coil. But there he was looking as splendid as a pox doctor’s apprentice on Sky “News” telling that other old stager Alan (The Parrot) Jones that Joe Biden’s election victory was a fraud, a “self-evident” fraud. In response to Trump’s claims of victory, Flint “can’t understand why journalists are throwing around the word ‘unssubsstantiated’ ”. He must have forgotten that the courts, and even the Trump-loving attorney-general William Barr, have found no evidence of ele...
In direct contradiction to a recommendation of a national intelligence review, the government is giving the AFP sweeping new spying powers to combat cybercrime.
Radical Fix For Australia’s ‘Broken’ Family Court System Met With Resistance Legal bodies and the federal opposition are vehemently opposing a “radical” move to merge the Family Court of Australia with the Federal Court. One expert however says the merger is a step in the right direction and will provide “considerable benefits” to families navigating the system. The Family Court of Australia has been the subject to four parliamentary inquiries over the past two decades seeking to address what former Law Council of Australia President Arthur Moses SC once described as “broken....