The chairman of Deacons’ Sydney office, Nick Abrahams, plans to spend the night in the open next week as part of his firm’s effort to raise money for homeless programs.
As residents fled for their lives and Australian firefighters battled more than 30 blazes in Victoria in the country’s worst-ever bushfires, authorities say some of the deadly conflagrations that have…
Updated: In an apparent first in Australia and, possibly, the world, a judge has OK’d a plan to serve a default judgment on a non-appearing defendant via a social networking…
A Catholic priest in Australia apparently had a will when he died in 1938. But confusion caused by the way in which he had handled an older sister’s estate and…
A fed-up judge in New Zealand thought the name “Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii” was an embarrassing name for a 9-year-old girl involved in a custody battle, so he…
The lawyer for a former Australian detainee at Guantanamo says yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling finding a right to habeas corpus could help his client.
An Australian judge was notified about a curious habit of some jurors hearing a drug conspiracy trial. They were thought to be taking notes, but for some reason they were…
Exactly one year after Australia’s Slater & Gordon became the world’s first publicly owned law practice, on May 21, 2007, the personal injury law firm is…
Almost half of all Web users would support an Internet code of conduct for bloggers and other Internet commentators, according to a survey by an international megafirm. But a growing…
Employers who take a more liberal view toward allowing workers access to social networking sites may have a better shot at recruiting young talent, according to a survey by the…
A New Zealand man is facing a criminal assault charge for hurling a weapon—that is to say, a hedgehog—about 16 feet at a 15-year-old victim, bruising and puncturing his leg.
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