The Law

A woman and her partner are on trial in Queensland for procuring a drug to induce a miscarriage. Under Queensland...

Fourty-one activists from the environmental group Rising Tide were arrested yesterday after breaking into the coal terminals at Newcastle Port...

When most people think about the difficulties that aid workers face operating in conflict zones, they usually think of the...

The NSW Government has this week introduced legislation extending the operation of covert search warrants under the Terrorism (Police Powers)...

Almost 50 per cent of adults in Australia don’t have a legally valid will. But taking the time to draw...

Independents Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon are drafting a bill this week to give journalists’ confidential sources more protection. And...

Poor crewmen on asylum seeker boats are being hit hard by new federal laws targeting people smugglers. The tougher legislation...

The French Government has vowed to continue deporting Roma people, despite protests across the country this weekend. Roughly 30,000 thousand...

From Darfur to Kabul and Sudan to Gaza, humanitarian workers have been attacked, killed, abducted and prevented from fulfilling their...

Germany has drafted a new law which would ban employers from getting information from perspective employees from social networking sites...