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The Delicate Balance of Justice
New laws took effect in Queensland, which remove the prohibition on publication of the identity of people charged ...
Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards 2024 Finalists
Our Alex Somers and Nicola Ellis have been named as finalists in the Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards 2024. Alex ...
Back to Square
“Chris Nyst took to the stage – along with film producer Trish Lake and award-winning actor David Wenham - to take ...
Cautious Steps
“The new Body Corporate and Community Management and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023, introduced in recent ...
International Acclaim For Millen
“Earlier this month, Chris Nyst returned to the winner’s circle in the literary world with his latest novel, the ...
Delayed Justice
“A recent study published by Civil Liberties Australia has estimated that 6% of all people held in Australian ...
The Substantial Truth
“...theoretically at least, Ben Roberts-Smith could be prosecuted for War Crimes under Article 8 of the Rome ...
The Greater Good
“...none of the amendments included in the Bill is more contentious than the proposed removal of the prohibition ...
A Bridge too Far
“[The] bill builds on those laws to ensure serious repeat youth offenders are held accountable for their actions ...
Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards 2023 Finalist
Alex Somers named as finalist in Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards 2023. Our Alex Somers has been ...
RIP Satts
This week saw the sad passing of the great South Sydney Rugby League legend, John Sattler, one of the toughest ...
CONGRATULATIONS TO JONATHAN NYST
"The Future Leaders Committee, is a group of emerging legal professionals who are passionate about shaping the ...
A MOMENTARY FLUTTER OF NERVOUSNESS
"Naturally, I'm now becoming just a little more concerned for my professional future. Where was all this AI stuff ...
Fake News and Tall Tales
"How dramatically the digital world seems to have jumped way ahead of our institutions and the protections they ...
Driven to Distraction
Currently, a driver caught by the cameras breaching seatbelt or mobile phone laws will receive a $1,078 fine and ...
Prime Time Crime
The controversial but tantalizing biopic Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story walks a very fine line between ...
Chris Nyst Releases New Crime Novel – ‘Millen’
After a long hiatus, Chris Nyst has returned to crime fiction writing with his latest novel, Millen.
It is a ...
Jonathan Nyst Wins Top Young Criminal Lawyer Award
Nyst Legal is extremely proud to announce that Jonathan Nyst has been named by Lawyers Weekly as Australia’s top ...
Nyst Legal Solicitor Jordan Roles Wins Griffith University Law Prize
I am very proud to announce that Nyst Legal Solicitor Jordan Roles was this week announced by Griffith University ...
Jonathan Nyst Named As Finalist In Law Awards
Nyst Legal are proud to announce that, for the third year in a row, Nyst Legal Senior Associate Jonathan Nyst has ...
The First Blink
No doubt the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is an avid student of history. Wherever it was that he learned it, ...
Brick By Brick
- Originally published by Ocean Road Magazine edition #45, Summer 2022.
On the morning of Sunday, 13 August 1961, ...
No Bystanders
In his massively successful, triple-platinum 2018 album "Astroworld," American rapper Travis Scott got the party ...
Privacy R.I.P.
Are police watching your Facebook, looking at your private health records, banking details, and email addresses? ...
The 21st Century Trolley Problem
In the fourth century BC, the Ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, first ascribed the title "ethics" to the ...
Is The Best Defence Really A Good Tay-Tay Song?
In this day and age, virtually everyone has high quality audio-visual recording equipment right at their ...
The Fine Detail
As anyone can tell you, the property market is going absolutely gangbusters right now. So much so that a bidder at ...
Jonathan Nyst Shortlisted For Law Award
As the proud father, and principal of Nyst Legal, I am extremely chuffed to be able to announce that this week, ...
Heroes and Villains
Some years ago I attended a breakfast at the Sheraton Hotel on the Gold Coast, at which the then highly-respected ...
Cat-O-Strophic Technology
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been vast, not least of all in the development of digital communication ...
Breaking The Internet
On 25 February 2021, the Federal Senate passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Media ...
To Jab or Not To Jab
We finally have vaccines for COVID-19. Australia is set to roll out its first batch, to the priority population - ...
Hard Cases
The familiar legal adage "Hard cases make bad law" dates back at least as far as the early 1800s. It points to the ...
Still Sorry
Between 1905 and 1970, generations of First Nations children were forcibly removed from their families, under a ...
A Matter Of Privilege
Confidential communications between lawyers and their clients are sacrosanct. They are subject to legal ...
The Lucky Country
This week, as we paused to remember, on the 102nd Remembrance Day, those who fell in foreign fields to defend and ...