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CATCHWORDS - PROFESSIONS AND TRADES – LAWYERS – COMPLAINTS AND DISCIPLINE – PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT AND UNSATISFACTORY PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT – OTHER MATTERS – where the respondent failed to disclose traffic infringements when applying to renew his practicing certificate on two occasions – where the respondent falsely declared that he had not been subject to any suitability matters mentioned in ss 9 and 46 of the Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld) on two occasions – where the respondent had a history of failing to disclose traffic offences and had previously been issued a practicing certificate on the condition that he undertake the Queensland Law Society Ethics Course because of the failure to disclose these offences – whether the respondent engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct – where the amount of a pecuniary penalty was in dispute
How Australia's new privacy tort lets media off the hook [Capital Brief paywall]
Australia now has a statutory tort of privacy — but with broad exemptions for journalists, the media is unlikely to ever be caught in its net.
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