Michaela Whitbourn is a former corporate lawyer who has reported extensively across politics, finance, business and law. In 2011, she was appointed the NSW political reporter for The Australian Financial Review and provided in-depth coverage of historic corruption inquiries into former state Labor ministers. She also exposed attempts by the O'Farrell government to mislead voters about the effect of the carbon tax on transport costs. In October 2013, she joined The Sydney Morning Herald as legal affairs and investigations reporter.
A toxic row between the country's two most senior lawyers escalated after Attorney-General George Brandis rejected advice on the same-sex marriage plebiscite from the government's chief legal adviser and instead sought the opinion of his predecessor in the Howard government.
The Sydney silk and St Patrick's College Strathfield old boy enjoyed relative anonymity before his public brawl with Attorney-General George Brandis.
Attorney-General George Brandis is facing calls to resign after the government's top legal adviser accused him of misleading Parliament.
An extraordinary row between the country's most senior legal figures has reached boiling point after the Solicitor-General released documents suggesting Attorney-General George Brandis misled Parliament.
The ICAC exposed donations irregularities striking at the heart of our democracy.
A High Court challenge to Senate voting changes is based on "hopeless" or "weak" grounds, the federal government's top lawyer has said.
The image of fugitives seeking sanctuary in churches and abbeys has been popularised in literature and film but it is "more myth than legal reality" in modern times, legal experts say.
Fair Work Commission vice-president Michael Lawler may not have a defence to a criminal charge of making secret recordings of his phone calls.
The giving and taking of offence is a shock jock's stock-in-trade. But the offence is not usually of the criminal variety.
Dyson Heydon, renowned jurist, black-letter lawyer, was never going to resign his post as head of the Trade Unions Royal Commission without putting the unions' barristers through their paces.
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