The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, in its interim COVID-19 Report released in September 2020, highlighted that 74% of the Australians who had...
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian Institute of Family Studies reported that between 2% and 14% of older Australians are likely to suffer financial abuse...
Enduring powers of attorney (EPOAs) are important tools that allow older people to choose the person (or persons) who will make financial decisions on their behalf...
C Lawyers & Boulos [2021] FamCAFC 39 C Lawyers & Boulos (No.2) [2021] FamCAFC 72 C Lawyers (the applicants) acted as solicitors for Ms Boulos (the...
LawRight and Bond University have teamed up to launch new clinics offering free legal advice to people not able to afford a lawyer or obtain legal...
In Bob Brown Foundation Inc. v Commonwealth of Australia (No.2) [2021] FCAFC 20 (26 February 2021) the Full Court considered costs following the hearing of a...
In a recent case in the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal (the tribunal), the Council of the Law Society of New South Wales alleged...
It’s that time of year again, when practitioners around Queensland are asked one simple question: what does access to justice mean and how can it be...
…hypothetical observer might reasonably apprehend that the trial judge might be influenced subconsciously by extraneous information In GetSwift Limited v Webb [2021] FCAFC 26 (5 March...
…that exploitation or taking advantage of some pre-existing vulnerability, disadvantage or disability is a necessary element of statutory unconscionability In Australian Competition and Consumer Law v...