NSW court rejects claim to disqualify a female judge for being “feminist” and “left leaning”..

In one of the first legal cases in Australia involving the social phenomenon of ‘sexting’, a Sydney pool cleaner was handed down a custodial sentence of almost 2 years jail for sexually harassing two women by way of explicit text messages. ..

Self representation in a divorce case is fraught with unexpected challenges. Often, the best strategy is to avoid court altogether. ..

In 2012 Justice Garry Foster was asked to declare a marriage between a dementia-affected grandfather and his lover and former cleaner void. In such a rare case, he had to consider whether the grandfather was mentally capable of understanding the effect and nature of marriage…

Telstra, one of Australia’s largest private sector employers, has become the latest organisation to offer staff domestic violence leave, with the telecommunications giant offering staff who are affected by family violence up to 10 days leave per year…

The Department of Human Services has spent more than half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money in legal fees fighting a child support dispute over $6000…

Parents locked in child custody disputes and couples going through acrimonious divorces will wait up to three years to have their cases finalised as “drastic underfunding” of the Federal Circuit Court and a mass exodus of retiring judges exacerbate already long waits…

A fifteen-year-old boy who has male external sexual organs but female internal sexual organs will be offered prosthetic testicles and undergo irreversible sex-changing treatment, but will still be able to have a baby, a Family Court judge has ruled…

There are some legal firms today that are offering what is now commonly called a fixed-price divorce…

Solicitors who specialise in helping female victims of Domestic Violence have been providing free, clandestine legal support to suspected victims of family violence, in hospital settings, while they have been receiving treatment for suspicious injuries. ..