The Law

Former Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu allegedly confessed to accepting bribes on the first day of his trial in Shanghai,...

The trial of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and 3 of his collegues began today in Shanghai. The men are...

Mamdouh Habib, former Guantanamo detainee, has won his defamation case against Sydney’s Daily Telegraph over an article published in 2005....

South Australian Premier Mike Rann has announced that if reelected, his government will amend the 1921 Evidence Act and provide...

Laws to target cyber racism may be expanded thanks to a review to be conducted by the Australian Human Rights...

It took seventeen hours of heated debate but Queensland has become the last Australian state to decriminalise altruistic surrogacy. In...

In the brutality and chaos of a warzone its hard to imagine that any kind of laws or regulations can...

Australia’s Law Council has today launched a policy statement to encourage more Indigenous Australians to be involved in our legal...

In a democracy most people would expect to be able to take photos in a public place unimpeded. However, in...

Prominent Aboriginal academic Noel Pearson has lambasted the state of Australia’s Native Title laws. He says courts have misinterpreted the...