SA Best MLC Connie Bonaros will today call for an independent investigation into workplace harassment within South Australia’s legal profession, with the former lawyer saying she is “no longer willing to sit by” and let it continue.
Two experienced South Australian lawyers have been appointed new Judges of the District Court, as Judges Gordon Barrett and Susanne Cole depart.
The Labor Party has denied it ever officially endorsed reviving the practice of naming the state’s best barristers Queen’s Counsels, comparing the proposal to former Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s politically disastrous move to reinstate Australian knighthoods in 2015.
The state’s legal industry is asking the government to reintroduce the title of QC, so potential clients can more easily recognise the distinction of its best-performing and highest-paid barristers, InDaily can reveal.