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Oct 24, 2023 | 
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Oct 25, 2023 12:11 pm AEDT
Noel Lim, the CEO and co-founder of charity and social enterprise Anika Legal, gives an insight into its mission to keep renters in safe homes, and the transformative role technology can play in improving access to justice.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
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Families involved in care and protection matters will now be referred to access early legal advice, under a new partnership between the NSW Government and legal agencies aimed at reducing the over-representation of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
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Oct 19, 2023 6:00 am AEDT
More women are at the helm of justice organisations than ever before, as the judiciary inches closer to historic majorities. While the numbers speak volumes about forward momentum, there remain structural barriers that need shifting to achieve equality. This story is a collation of the challenges and opportunities of four trailblazing women determined to move the needle.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
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Oct 12, 2023 4:01 pm AEDT
As the Federal Government considers reforming Australia’s anti-money laundering regime to include the legal profession, a new report has found that practitioners are “proactively working” to mitigate the risk of being a party to these crimes.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
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Oct 11, 2023 12:34 pm AEDT
The NSW Government is expanding drug diversion programs for people caught with small quantities of illicit substances to reduce contact with the criminal justice system and ease the burden on police and courts, as recommended by the landmark Ice Inquiry.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
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The Federal Government is targeting “bad actors” taking advantage of Australia’s refugee protection system by lodging false asylum seeker claims and plans to make a dent in the “exponential backlog” of cases, as part of a new package of reforms. The $160 million package, announced on Thursday by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, has a three-prong approach designed to reform the protection visa system.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
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Hundreds of legal professionals have turned out for day one of the Law Society of NSW’s Annual Conference, with sessions focused on “futureproofing” legal careers including on the impact of ChatGPT, riding the TikTok boom and judging solicitor advocates. Over 300 delegates, 40 speakers and 13 sponsors and exhibitors, gathered on Thursday 5 October at the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park for the first of the two-day sold-out event.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
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Sep 29, 2023 1:14 pm AEST
The Federal Government has announced the most significant overhaul of Australia’s privacy laws since the 1980s, with repercussions for millions of small businesses, advertisers targeting children and giving individuals the right to demand the erasure of their personal information.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
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Sep 26, 2023 10:52 am AEST
An artificial intelligence tool used by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) to analyse more than half a million police domestic violence reports found 57 per cent included coercive control behaviours.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
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Sep 21, 2023 12:16 pm AEST
The Australian Government has concluded its formal coordinated response to the cyber attack on law firm HWL Ebsworth earlier this year that saw data belonging to 65 government entities compromised, the country’s national cyber security coordinator has declared.
