Michael Bradley
Crikey columnist @marquelawyers
Michael Bradley is a freelance writer and managing partner at Sydney firm Marque Lawyers, which was created in 2008 with the singular ambition of completely changing the way law is practised.
A defamation case that resulted in a measly $6500 payout proves yet again that the law is in serious need of reform.
Like so many institutions, St Kevin's College sacrificed the children in its care on the altar of its own survival.
It is inevitable that there will be more defamation litigation resulting from nasty online reviews. And the law just isn't set up to cope.
Whether Morrison and his gang are aware of the damage they are doing is unclear, but their shameless refusal to submit to the law is lethal to our democracy.
Australian beaches have been disappearing faster and with more permanence, no question; the causes are not so simple and neither are the legal consequences.
Constitutionally speaking, the government has no power to appropriate funds and give them to sporting organisations, even when it isn't pork-barrelling.
The legal ramifications of the Coalition's latest rorting scandal run deeper than you may think.
Flying Nazi flags is abhorrent. But new laws against them won’t make the slightest difference to Australia's drift to authoritarianism.
The government has come down again, and even harder, on the side of institutional religion, to make it crystal clear that the churches’ rights trump our personal rights in all fields.
