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Naomi Neilson is a senior journalist with a focus on court reporting for Lawyers Weekly. You can email Naomi at: [email protected]
Perth firm dodges bullying order pursued by former employee
Despite her application having already been thrown out, a former employee of a Perth law firm tried to convince the Fair Work Commission to issue a stop-bullying order to ...
SME LAW • Sun, 30 Mar 2025
$160k awarded for defamation over sickening paedophilia accusations
A child recovery agent who once vowed he would not pay “one cent” to a family dispute resolution practitioner he repeatedly defamed with vile and untrue accusations has ...
SME LAW • Thu, 27 Mar 2025
Not-for-profits left to pick up government’s slack on domestic violence, lawyer says
The government has dumped the responsibility and immense pressure of addressing the scourge of domestic and family violence on not-for-profits but has left them with ...
Pig-hunting lawyer commits insurance fraud, court told
In the face of “concrete evidence”, a principal lawyer lied to his insurance company about an incident that involved pig hunting, a broken Can-Am vehicle, and a former ...
BIG LAW • Wed, 26 Mar 2025
Seven to face defamation proceedings over alleged Lehrmann comments
A former producer who sensationally claimed Seven fronted the costs of Bruce Lehrmann’s “cocaine and prostitutes” in exchange for a tell-all interview has sued the ...
More court stoushes in store for boutique firm and vengeful training lawyer
In what appears to be a seemingly endless legal battle, a Parramatta boutique law firm has been dragged through yet another hearing with a man it provided supervised ...
SME LAW • Tue, 25 Mar 2025
Counsel for airport strip-search victims grilled by full court
Australian women strip-searched at a Doha airport have fought to access a never-before-seen contract between an airport operations company and Qatar Civil Aviation ...
BIG LAW • Tue, 25 Mar 2025
‘Hope you die’: Lawyer allegedly threatened former client
In his desperation to recover the hundreds of thousands of dollars he loaned to his former client, an NSW lawyer allegedly told her he hoped she would die and claimed the ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 24 Mar 2025
Court unfairly ‘shut out’ Qatar Airways strip-search case, lawyer argues
Counsel for the Australian women who experienced a “traumatising” ordeal at Doha airport has said the Federal Court should be “troubled” by the fact the original case was ...