An emerging trend is that of female lawyers leaving large law firms to commence their own practices. While capitalizing on the high demand for clients unavailable during typical business hours and find legal services unaffordable, they are finding more time to look after their kids while closing the growing legal aid gap. ..

Fathers who run their own businesses are declaring lower incomes to the Australian Tax Office to avoid paying higher rates of child support, Victoria Legal Aid says. The organisation will discuss its clients’ difficulties in both receiving and paying child …..

Victoria Legal Aid says it will review cuts to its family services – which the Family Court’s Chief Justice has criticised as compromising children’s best interests – later this year…

THE federal government has dropped cases against 18 people charged with welfare fraud following a High Court ruling over retrospective legislation…

A HIGH Court ruling has put into doubt thousands of prosecutions against people on welfare who did not tell Centrelink their circumstances had changed…