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Apr 22, 2025 10:45 am AEST
In November 2000, John Ridgway leveraged his experience of living and working in the Pacific for nearly a decade to create the Pacific Legal Network (PLN). In the decades since, the firm has grown from his Sydney office to establish offices and affiliates across Asia, Europe, and the US.
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lsj.com.au | Cat Woods - |Cat Woods
But the US is not alone in considering, or implementing, laws that enable the deportation of dual citizens without offering them course to contest such orders.
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3 weeks ago | 
lsj.com.au | Cat Woods - |Cat Woods
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Apr 04, 2025 9:00 am AEDT
Rural, regional and remote NSW communities face a number of challenges in 2025: a skills shortage as younger people opt to live in urban centres, climate challenges and associated insurance hikes, critical undersupply of rental housing, and uncertainty over future policies ahead of next month’s election. Lawyers in the regions inevitably face these same challenges.
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1 month ago | 
lsj.com.au | Cat Woods - |Cat Woods
As an exercise in free speech, defying the will of Mark Zuckerberg, his executive team, and Meta lawyers, the recent book by a former Facebook executive, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, is evidence that people are still speaking up in a litigious environment. Wynn-Williams had transitioned from her role as a United Nations diplomat to join Facebook in 2011.
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1 month ago | 
lsj.com.au | Cat Woods - |Cat Woods
The Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, superseded by the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act 2016 (USA) (the Global Magnitsky Act), was named after Ukrainian-born Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was beaten to death in a Moscow prison in 2009 following his revelations of serious tax fraud ($US230 million) by Russian companies, involving Russian tax officials.
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1 month ago | 
lsj.com.au | Cat Woods - |Cat Woods
Hours after the address, Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede responded via Facebook, posting: “Kalaallit Nunaat is ours”, pointedly using the Greenlandic name. The translation is: “Greenland is ours.”Australia is nearly four times the size of Greenland, which – while geographically small at 2.166 million km² – is rich in natural resources. Greenland is the largest of three of Denmark’s constituencies, including Denmark and the Faroe Islands.
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1 month ago | 
lsj.com.au | Cat Woods - |Cat Woods
Court proceedings in the case, known as Doe 1 Trust, PR23-00813, are sealed, so the details of proceedings are ascertained from media reports.
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1 month ago | 
lsj.com.au | Cat Woods - |Cat Woods
A few years since reforms were made to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) (SOCI Act) in 2021-2022, and further reforms from November 2024, the “space technology sector” remains a key economic opportunity through commercial provision of services, but it also raises security risks owing to a lack of scrupulous cybersecurity measures.
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1 month ago | 
lsj.com.au | Cat Woods - |Cat Woods
Donziger is a US environmental and human rights lawyer. For over a decade, he battled oil giant Chevron, which cost that business billions, and ultimately won an oil pollution case on behalf of Amazonian communities whose land and homes had been devastated over a number of decades. LSJ Online spoke to two environmental lawyers for their perspectives on this case and its broader implications for law and justice.
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2 months ago | 
lsj.com.au | Cat Woods - |Cat Woods
Renowned human rights lawyer, and founding head of Doughty Street Chambers in London, Geoffrey Robertson KC has claimed that in charging the star footballer, the Crown Prosecution Service “wrongly authorised this prosecution”. Kerr, a striker for Chelsea Football Club Women’s Super League since 2020 and captain of the Matildas, was acquitted of racially aggravated harassment on February 11.
