The Law Council of Australia has announced its newly-elected 2022 executive, which assumed its duties in the new year. Tass Liveris, a barrister at William Forster Chambers in Darwin, has been named
Parliamentary privilege called into question by NT Law Society
By Naomi Neilson|15 December 2020
The Northern Territory Law Society has unsuccessfully alleged that a barrister’s advice to prominent members of Parliament concerning a controversial inquiry in 2014 was in breach of his legal duties and amounted to unsatisfactory professional conduct. These allegations were held in contention by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal.
In an application bought by originating motion by the Law Society sought orders in the nature of certiorari and prohibition against the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, with respect to two decisions of the tribunal dismissing complaints made against NT-based barrister Alistair Wyvill SC that alleged unprofessional conduct.