Obeid and Macdonald face marathon trial in 2019
The Supreme Court heard the trial of the men on conspiracy charges will run for an estimated 23 weeks and cannot start until 2019.
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.
The Supreme Court heard the trial of the men on conspiracy charges will run for an estimated 23 weeks and cannot start until 2019.
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The NSW Law Society has backed down in an extraordinary row over same-sex marriage by issuing a statement clarifying that its public support for a change in the law does not represent the views of each of its 30,000 members.
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A Crown prosecutor, a high-powered commercial litigator and two barristers who assisted the Trade Union Royal Commission are among a select group of Sydney barristers elevated this year to the prized rank of senior counsel.
Jailed former union boss John Maitland has escaped a third trial on corruption charges after a District Court judge found the latest prosecution would be "oppressive and an abuse of process".
Disgruntled members are agitating for an extraordinary general meeting to censure the Law Society for backing a change to the Marriage Act.
Judges and magistrates would be required to take into account an offender's Aboriginal background and consider ways to reduce the Indigenous prisoner population under a radical overhaul of sentencing laws drafted by leading lawyers.
The state's highest court has thrown out an appeal brought by jailed former NSW Labor minister Eddie Obeid.
The driver and two passengers died after the car rolled and caught fire.
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