This guide provides a helpful checklist outlining the minimum steps that must be taken to develop effective legislation. It is intended to facilitate parliamentary scrutiny of the legislative development process, representing best practice in terms of design, consultation and impact assessment. If not followed the legislation may produce undesirable outcomes, prove unworkable or even be...

Outlining key policy priorities identified by the Australian legal profession, this paper seeks commitment to the reforms needed to improve law and policy. It calls for prioritising protection of the rule of law, promoting the administration of justice, supporting the exercise of rights under the law and committing to the principles of good law making.

The Law Council of Australia recently commissioned an independent expert to analyse the vulnerabilities of the Australian legal profession to money laundering and terrorism financing risk. This report outlines the findings.

This guide is intended to assist legal practitioners to identify and address potential issues regarding elder financial abuse in the preparation and execution of wills and other advance planning documents.

The Justice Project, which began in early 2017, is the Law Council’s national, comprehensive review into the state of access to justice in Australia for people experiencing significant disadvantage. It is one of the most extensive reviews of its type in forty years.