07:00 AM | New legislation handing police the right to enter in "emergency circumstances" has been welcomed by the national human rights commission.
19 March 2010 | Years after it started campaigning for an independent review of Australia's national security laws, the peak body representing the country's lawyers has had a win.
17 March 2010 | A new Bill introduced into Parliament today will enable the community to better scrutinise the actions of the Norfolk Island government and administration.
10 March 2010 | Draft legislation that enables the government to target Telstra's government and enterprise business with its new national broadband network has lawyers, and Telstra itself, wired.
5 March 2010 | The corporate regulator has reached an out-of-court agreement with the Australian Wheat Board as AWB agreed to hand over confidential documents from the Iraq oil-for-food saga.
17 February 2010 | New legislation will be introduced into the Victorian Parliament to require bars, pubs and clubs to serve free drinking water.
17 February 2010 | More than 370 Baker & McKenzie partners and 200 of their clients will descend upon Sydney next week for the firm's annual Asia Pacific meeting.
16 February 2010 | The Attorney-General has acknowledged the sentences imposed by the NSW Supreme Court in the trial of five individuals convicted of terrorism offenses.
10 February 2010 | A new reform package could exonerate directors from insolvency trading claims, among other things. Brisbane barrister David Topp writes
5 February 2010 | Costs associated with expensive Royal Commissions could be reduced by establishing another, alternative tier of public inquiry, Australia's leading law reform agency said yesterday.