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Parts of NSW in dire need of legal aid help are facing a lawyer drought. Low rates of pay are to blame.
Giggle app founder Sall Grover has lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee, challenging a Federal Court ruling that found 'sex is changeable'.
Super Retail seeking to hide ‘dirty laundry’, court hears [The Australian]
The owner of Supercheap Auto and BCF has been accused of trying to suppress key details of an alleged settlement with two former legal executives.
Contingency fees were expected to boost plaintiff firms, but the recent reversal in results has exposed the high-risk, high-reward strategy.
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Piper Alderman has hired six partners from Squire Patton Boggs, as the international legal market in Australia undergoes another shift.
This video is about the constitutional limit on the States imposing an excise. It discusses the historical meaning of excise and how the High Court has changed its interpretation over time.
The current Commonwealth statute book is replete with legislation that relies on the Commonwealth’s legislative power under s 51(xxxvii) of the Constitution to make laws with respect to matters referred to the Commonwealth Parliament by Australian state parliaments. This article examines uncertainties concerning the scope of the power by focusing on four drafting issues that legislative drafters have commonly needed to consider when preparing legislation for schemes that rely on the power. It is argued that these uncertainties are either overstated or can be addressed using appropriate drafting techniques. Consequently, the power offers a constitutionally sound cooperative mechanism that allows the Commonwealth and the states to legislate for issues of national concern when they individually have insufficient legislative power to do so.
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