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Teal MPs including Zali Steggall have called for a royal commission into domestic and family violence.

Domestic violence royal commission ‘should examine family law system’

Teal MPs are calling for action amid warnings that perpetrators are weaponising the family court system and “deliberately driving up the other side’s legal costs”.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

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Parents are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in protracted family law fights.

‘I will work until the day I die’: The crippling cost of family law fights

Eloise was forced to flee a husband who subjected her and their children to a “daily regime of coercive control”. The legal bills were crushing.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
The High Court’s Justice Robert Beech-Jones.

High Court judges should not air disagreements in public

Judges should avoid public controversy. A recent speech by the High Court’s Justice Robert Beech-Jones appeared to breach that rule.

  • George Brandis
“What I had noticed in the law was the power of story-telling to change things.”

Suzie Miller was told ‘women can’t really write plays’. She’s now won awards in London and New York

Suzie Miller has used her legal background to write plays that don’t just entertain, but create change.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Magistrate Carolyn Burnside.

‘Maniacs’: Magistrate disciplined for stereotyping over swingers remarks

The Judicial Commission of Victoria recommended magistrate Carolyn Burnside be counselled after she said those who attended swingers’ events were “playing with fire”.

  • Cameron Houston
Norman O’Bryan leaves court

Top silk Norman O’Bryan avoids jail for attempted overcharging fraud

The former lawyer from one of Victoria’s most esteemed legal families has been sentenced for attempting to defraud victims in a class action.

  • Sarah Danckert
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Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling, SC.

‘Let me finish’: Top prosecutor’s fiery appearance at inquiry

Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling, SC, appeared for a second time at a NSW parliamentary inquiry examining her office’s role in a negative story about a judge.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Norman O’Bryan outside the County Court of Victoria on Thursday.

He was one of the country’s most celebrated silks. Then he defrauded pensioner scam victims

Even Norman O’Bryan’s own lawyer referred to the saga as “a most public fall from grace”.

  • Sarah Danckert
“The woke left won last year’s Bar Council elections,” says barrister James Catlin in an email to colleagues.

‘Wholly inadequate’: Bar warns low pay risks aborted trials and overturned convictions

The Criminal Bar Association says underpaid and unprepared lawyers are putting some of the state’s most serious cases at risk because of meagre rates of pay.

  • Erin Pearson
Binding financial agreements, sometimes called prenuptial agreements, are growing in popularity among women.

‘Some men might not like it’: Why women are choosing prenups

Prenuptial agreements are no longer the sole purview of wealthy older men trying to protect their assets from younger partners.

  • Michaela Whitbourn