Features & Investigations
14 December 2021
A ground-breaking development within clinical practice that indicates a natural cause of death for two of Kathleen Folbigg’s children is further evidence that she has spent the last 19 years behind bars for a crime she never committed, her solicitor tells Lawyers Weekly.
09 July 2022
Family and friends of murdered Geelong woman Maddison Pante-Parrott are overjoyed that Nicholas Cross has been found guilty of all charges relating to the shooting and burning of her body.
18 August 2020
From battered victims, disadvantaged clients and even a serial killer, barrister Andrew Boe has taken cues from his own career to argue that the justice system was not designed for truth - it's a blood sport for the unfortunate.
27 April 2020
Leave a bit of evidence and murder is easier to prosecute. Leave some remorse and offenders of drug trafficking are more likely to be prosecuted. Leave a traumatic scene from the sexual assault and rape of a female victim and the criminal justice system freezes up.
29 January 2020
The criminal justice system and the role of criminal lawyers is chaotically busy, majorly rewarding and consistently surprising - and often completely misunderstood. We get to the bottom of it with an accredited specialist.
12 November 2019
Carpe Diem! and other musings behind one of Australia's most renowned judges, whose illustrious career had to hurdle doubts and judgements to celebrate many professional achievements and personal blessings.
28 March 2021
Growing up in South Africa's apartheid and forced to endure horrors no one should, Lovemore Ndou committed his life to making a name for himself as a boxer and then right injustices as a lawyer.
26 October 2020
The revelations that a former justice sexually harassed associates was hardly surprising to a profession that has fielded allegations and fostered toxic cultures long before the #MeToo movement.