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Fri Sep 01 2017Pro-bono work a high calling for Australian barristers It would be troubling if it were to become the norm in Australia for the legal profession to have to remind our elected members of parliament that legal representation should be available not just to the powerful or the popular.
Pauline Wright responds to ‘overstep’ complaint The president of the NSW Law Society has responded to unhappy members, who have expressed their frustrations about her role in a joint statement addressing marriage equality laws, with one going so far as to say that the council’s involvement demonstrates a “willingness to overstep the mark for the sake of perceived and populist political correctness”.
Clive Palmer launches bid to disqualify judge Clive Palmer has failed in an extraordinary bid to have a Supreme Court judge disqualified from hearing a $US16m legal fight, alleging judges across Australia have been secretly communicating about him.