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.
Support for same-sex marriage has caused a rift in the NSW legal profession after the Law Society came under fire for issuing a joint statement with the medical profession backing a change to federal marriage laws.
The judicial retirement age would be lifted in NSW from 72 to 75 under a plan submitted to the state government.
He proposed with a $15,500 diamond engagement ring and showered his beloved in lavish gifts. Then he broke off the engagement and demanded she give them back.
It must be among the shortest Court of Appeal hearings in history.
A Sydney law graduate argued his command of the English language was too limited to be a juror in a murder trial. The Supreme Court disagreed.
The court heard the woman bought pills on the internet after her boyfriend objected to the pregnancy.
The Woolworths store in Sydney's inner west did not act negligently, an appeal court found.
Mental illness or cognitive impairment among the prison population is so high it should be "assumed as the norm" rather than the exception, a report has found.
A rogue blogger who named two women accused of having affairs with Network Seven boss Tim Worner has been jailed for four months for contempt of court, after a judge found his conduct "borders on obsession".
Former NSW Labor ministers Eddie Obeid, Joe Tripodi and Tony Kelly have been hit with fresh corruption findings and may face criminal charges over a "deceptive" cabinet submission the corruption watchdog found was made to benefit the Obeid family.
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