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Is it Legal to Monitor Your Spouse Using Spyware?

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Source: Pixabay Invasion of Privacy – A Marital Misconduct Jenny Harrison* Ethically, it is illegal to break into someone’s personal devices as it violates their privacy. Spying means that you are snooping into someone’s tech device and reading all the data and conversation without their consent. When it’s a stranger spying on you, the rules […]

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UK’s Largest Law Firm IPO – But Can It Enter The Lucrative US Litigation Market?

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Law firm DWF has been valued at the largest amount of any law firm in Britain’s law firm IPO history with a value of almost $US500m (£366m), the firm announced this week. The legal firm intends offering over 78 million shares to provide £95.2 million, according to a Financial Times report. DWF’s offering is the

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Westpac Faces First Royal Commission Lawsuit

The first lawsuit to emerge from Australia’s Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has been issued, with Australia’s leading class action law firm Maurice Blackburn Lawyers taking on Westpac for providing loans in breach of responsible lending laws. The Royal Commission conducted seven rounds of public hearings over 68 days,

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Allen & Overy Expands Consulting Practice to Australia

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Allen & Overy is expanding its regulatory consulting business, A&O Consulting, to Australia with the appointment of a new Partner to head the practice. Lee Alam will join A&O Consulting from Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), where he was the General Manager of Global Regulatory Affairs. In this role he was responsible for managing CBA’s

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HFW Launches Australia Employment Practice With Team Hire

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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW expands its service capability in Australia with the hire of a specialist industrial relations and employment team including two new partners. Gavin Vallely, Managing Partner Australia, HFW: “We are thrilled to welcome Mark Sant, Brendan Milne and their team to HFW.  Mark and Brendan are very accomplished and highly regarded

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Year in Review 2018 and Year to Come 2019

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Linklaters.com – Now in its 8th year, our hugely popular series brings together analysis, thinking and highlights from our lawyers around the world, in the form of topic-specific and jurisdictional guides. These guides summarise a selection of the major developments you should be aware of from 2018, and a number of major developments expected in

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Jones Day Partner to Lead Perth Law Office

15 January 2019The global law firm Jones Day announces that Adam Salter, a partner in the Firm’s Labor & Employment Practice will serve as Partner-in-Charge of the Firm’s Perth Office effective January 1, 2019. Jones Day’s Perth Office works with the Firm’s practices and offices throughout the world to ensure that every client is advised and counseled by the lawyers

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Submission to ALRC Inquiry into Class Actions calls for a closer look at short seller involvement in class actions

MinterEllison has lodged a further submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) Inquiry into Class Action Proceedings and Third-Party Litigation Funders, with the firm calling for a closer look at the appropriateness of short sellers’ participation in shareholder class actions.In its earlier submission of 30 July 2018, MinterEllison’s response to the ALRC Inquiry called

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