The story of Jolene, the plaintiff in a civil action alleging the state of NSW failed to protect her from the repeated abuse she experienced as a child. Two weeks ago Jolene ended her life at aged twenty seven.

A Queensland lawyer fails in his defamation case against a former relative who referred to him as Dennis Denuto, the bumbling lawyer in the Australian film The Castle.

The case of the Adelaide researcher who took on Google and won.

Australia's largest online database of case law and legislation is turning twenty.

Last week Maurice Blackburn, Australia's leading class action law firm, commenced proceedings by disgruntled Australian buyers of Volkswagen diesel cars in the Federal Court.

But a little known firm called Bannister Law had also filed court documents three weeks earlier.

A Senate Committee hearing on Corporate Tax Avoidance were blistering in their criticism of the company's use of cross US and Australian transactions to 'minimise tax'. The US mining giant is appealing the recent decision by the Federal court to pay the Australian Tax Office 269 million dollars

The High Court has ruled so called paperless arrests in the Northern Territory law are valid, but has imposed limits on how the laws can be interpreted.

Palm Island couple David Bulsey and Yvette Lenoy have been awarded damages for their wrongful arrest following the police death in custody riots in 2004.

A suit is to be filed aimed at ending 'blackstriking' by prosecutors in Caddo Parish, in Louisiana. The case is based on data collected by lawyers from Reprieve Australia, who have found that African Americans are routinely prevented from serving as jurors in criminal trials.

The High Court has ruled that a Victorian convicted of the Federal offence of heroin importation, should be sentenced in accordance with sentencing practices around the country, rather than the more lenient Victorian sentencing practice.