A wealthy lawyer who tried to use “squatter’s rights” to claim a pair of abandoned Sydney homes has now emerged at the centre of a bizarre legal battle for a $20m fortune…

Can video or audio recordings be used in the Family Court? on Law Report – Separate stories podcast..

Can SMS Text Messages be used as Evidence in the Family Court? The short answer to this is YES, YES and YES again…

In a recent case, Counsel indicated that the applicant mother would seek to tender voice recordings and transcripts of conversations between the parties. The recordings and transcript were only provided to the other parties legal reps less than a week prior to the commencement of the hearing. This did not comply with the pre-trial directions for the filing of evidence. This article provides 8 tips on how to properly admit audio recordings in family law hearings…

Cancer Council Victoria has launched a Supreme Court bid to get its hands on a dead woman’s medical records, to establish whether it has a claim to $12 million left to the organisation in her previous will…

Two prominent Australian lawyers have submitted covertly recorded phone recordings as evidence in their respective cases, which they claim to be legal despite being secretly recorded without the knowledge of those being recorded, because the intention of the recordings was to protect a “legitimate lawful interest”. And it seems they are correct!..

A WOMAN who claimed her partner was her brother has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Federal Government of more than $115,000 in single-parent welfare payments. Nhu Nguyen, 40, was charged with three counts of fraud, committed between 1999 and 2011. …..

Psychiatrists are handing their patients’ confidential records to the courts amid threats of jail, under a flourishing practice by solicitors of issuing “dirt digging” subpoenas…

The extent of her deception is by now well known to most, especially after it was revealed in sordid detail in a 60 Minutes special last year…

Until recently, there was no law protecting you from the spread of your intimate images. Does Victoria have the answer?..