Courts and criminal defence lawyers generally take a two-week break over the Christmas and New Year season. This 2020-2021 year, most courts will close from 25 December through to 10 January. The below New South Wales Courts are closed on the following dates:: Supreme Court: 20 December 2021 – 28 January 2022 District Court: 18 […]
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Victoria has amended laws allowing access to footage from police body-worn cameras in law suits against police. Victorian Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes made the amendment after the exposure of the loophole last year. The purpose of the change is to either prove or disprove allegations of abuses of power. Under the previous law, not even judges
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The Federal government is to pay a traditional owners corporation more than $2M after settling a class action over the controversial ‘work for the dole‘ program. Western Australia’s Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the Ngaanyatjarra council (‘the Council’) launched a class action in 2019 on behalf of 680 CDP participants. They argued that the program was
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