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The Chief Justice of the High Court has written to the Prime Minister, warning him that any move to cut the court's funding would significantly affect its ability to carry out its work.
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A Liberal government would consider scrapping the threshold on compulsory third party insurance in SA.
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Figures show South Australia's crowded prisons are now beyond capacity, but jails are not a likely vote-winner for the major parties.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, unions, states-and-territories, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, elections, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, mount-gambier-5290
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A prominent Brisbane barrister has again criticised Queensland's anti-bikie laws.
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A barrister who was rejected for a Queensland Government brief despite being recommended by senior crown lawyers says he worries about the appointment process.
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A senior military officer accused of producing and possessing child abuse material has been committed to stand trial in the Northern Territory.
Defence lawyers had tried to have evidence against the man ruled inadmissible, saying Australian Federal Police did not obtain informed consent before conducting searches in Jakarta and Darwin.
The accused has been charged with three counts of possessing child abuse material in Darwin and Indonesia, and 11 counts of producing child abuse material.
Topics: courts-and-trials, judges-and-legal-profession, child-abuse, darwin-0800, indonesia
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The Treasurer Troy Buswell has settled his defamation case against his former partner Adele Carles.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, perth-6000
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The Queensland Bar Association (QBA) has condemned Premier Campbell Newman for describing some defence lawyers as "part of the criminal gang machine".
Topics: laws, public-sector, judges-and-legal-profession, activism-and-lobbying, brisbane-4000, southport-4215
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Lawyers in Bendigo say this year's state election will provide an opportunity to lobby for increased funding for legal aid.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, judges-and-legal-profession, elections, activism-and-lobbying, bendigo-3550
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The Law Society is concerned about the possible impact on vulnerable people of a new fines payment unit in South Australia.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, poverty, community-and-society, judges-and-legal-profession, sa, adelaide-5000
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A homeless man known as the "rubbish warrior" of Darwin will remain in enforced accommodation until at least the end of this week.
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Nauru's former solicitor general says he resigned in protest over the government's treatment of its resident magistrate, Australian, Peter Law and Australian based chief justice, Geoffrey Eames.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, australia, pacific
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Prominent human rights lawyer Julian Burnside says Australia is remaining silent about Nauru's legal turmoil because it protects asylum seeker detention centres on the island.
Topics: refugees, judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, australia, pacific
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Members of the NSW legal establishment say tough mandatory sentences for drunken violence will not deter offenders.
An eight-year minimum sentence for fatal one-punch attacks involving alcohol was one of the key measures announced yesterday.
Premier Barry O'Farrell was driven to act by public outrage at recent violence in Kings Cross and Sydney's CBD.
Topics: laws, judges-and-legal-profession, states-and-territories, drugs-and-substance-abuse, kings-cross-2011
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The controversial new deportation law at the centre of Nauru's judicial crisis could also be applied to asylum seekers sent there by Australia, the ABC understands.
Topics: world-politics, judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, nauru, australia, melbourne-3000, pacific
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The state's first Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner has been appointed to regulate the conduct of South Australia's lawyers.
The role replaces that of the Legal Practitioner's Conduct Board, which was disbanded after the Eugene McGee case.
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NSW Attorney-General, Greg Smith, SC, has officially opened the new Armidale Court House.
Topics: courts-and-trials, judges-and-legal-profession, state-parliament, regional, armidale-2350
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Topics: courts-and-trials, judges-and-legal-profession, regional, state-parliament, armidale-2350
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The Northern Territory Supreme Court has dismissed all appeals relating to the brutal killing of a Katherine man more than two years ago.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, judges-and-legal-profession, darwin-0800, katherine-0850
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South Australian Supreme Court Justice Anne Bampton has been fined $1,300 and had her licence disqualified for more than eight months after pleading guilty to drink driving offences.
Bampton recorded a blood alcohol reading of more than twice the legal limit when she crashed her car into a female cyclist in November.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, traffic-offences, judges-and-legal-profession, sa, adelaide-5000
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Prominent northern lawyer Adrian Hall has pleaded not guilty to domestic violence charges.
Hall has appeared in the Magistrates Court in Launceston charged with assault and breaching a family violence order.
It is alleged Hall assaulted his ex-partner on Christmas Eve 2012, grabbing her by the neck and pushing her up against a wall.
Topics: domestic-violence, courts-and-trials, judges-and-legal-profession, launceston-7250
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A trial program is underway in Armidale to provide document certification services to aged homes in the area.
Topics: laws, courts-and-trials, judges-and-legal-profession, family-law, armidale-2350
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Lawyers have argued that former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf could not receive a fair trial on treason charges, a case that could test the relationship between an increasingly assertive civilian government and the army.
Topics: courts-and-trials, government-and-politics, judges-and-legal-profession, army, elections, political-parties, pakistan, asia
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