Law in the News

Parts of the agricultural industry are lobbying the government to adopt US-style laws that make it a criminal offence to film battery farms and slaughter houses. I hope there doesn’t come a day where we are required to defend a person who’s only crime was to expose an act of cruelty against an animal. Date:

Citizenship is already being denied on character grounds to people with relatively minor criminal records. Part of the eligibility criteria for Australian citizenship is the Minister of Immigration being satisfied that the applicant is of good character: s21(2) of the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (the Act). The expression ‘good character’ is not defined in the Act. However,

Channel 7 has reported an Australian woman has complained about a price hike for marijuana, concerned her local drug dealer was ripping her off. The only trouble is she rang police to express her anger. Police say the woman called on Sunday, telling officers her drugs had cost her more than usual. “Completely offended, the

Another glass ceiling has been smashed with named the 13th Chief Justice of the Australian High Court. She has spent her formidable legal career rewriting the script of how to not just succeed but to climb to the very pinnacle in the most establishment of careers. On Monday, more than 113 years since the first chief justice of the