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The Online Resources Hub brings publications, guidelines, articles and other resources from across the Law Society Website to one centralised and searchable location. Searches can be made using the Common Searches buttons or by using your own search terms in the search bar.

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InBrief is a weekly newsletter distributed to all Members on Thursday afternoons and contains important notices about current issues, updates, upcoming events, renewals, calls for expressions of interest, employment opportunities, submissions, missing will notices and other relevant and current information for members of the profession. Please contact Elle Ashton on (08) 8229 0236 or via email publications@lawsocietysa.asn.au to get a notice included in InBrief. For more information about the requirements for a missing will notice, please visit Locating the Will of a Deceased Person | Law Society of South Australia.

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Jul 10, 2024 – The Federal Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) is responsible for the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 which currently regulates the financial, gambling and bullion sectors. The AGD is currently reviewing the anti-mo
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Jun 15, 2023 – On 15 June 2023, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2023, the Law Council published a revised Best Practice Guide for Legal Practitioners in Relation to Elder Financial Abuse to help lawyers identify potential incidents of abuse, particularly financial
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Nov 11, 2019 – Guidelines relating to Bullying, Discrimination and Sexual Harassment adopted by the Council at its meeting on 4 November 2019
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Feb 1, 2021 – Crowd-funding has obvious access to justice benefits and can be a valid and valuable source of funding for legal services. 2. The purpose of this document is to improve understanding of crowd-funding and highlight the relevant ethical and profession
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Mar 6, 2023 – The examination aims to identify any injury or medical condition that you suffer and to determine the extent to which such injury or condition was caused by your accident and/or work conditions.
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Jul 6, 2014 – The Bulletin is the Law Society’s flagship journal, featuring information on the latest developments in the legal profession, informed analysis on key justice issues, previews and reviews of major events, and engaging profiles of legal professionals.
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Aug 23, 2022 – Access CPD papers and recordings via our online store or view a listing of older papers and recordings
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Aug 13, 2024 – The Small Practice Newsletter is coordinated by David Barnfield (Small Practice Committee member). It is distributed to all practitioners in small firms and barristers (who are members of the Law Society)
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Jul 6, 2014 – The Bulletin is the Law Society’s flagship journal, featuring information on the latest developments in the legal profession, informed analysis on key justice issues, previews and reviews of major events, and engaging profiles of legal professionals.
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Nov 1, 2024 – Advocacy Notes is a monthly newsletter providing the latest news and advocacy from the Law Society
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Feb 15, 2019 – InBrief is a weekly newsletter distributed to all Members on Thursday afternoons. InBrief contains important information about current issues, updates, upcoming events, renewals, calls for expressions of interest, employment opportunities, submis
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Sep 16, 2020 – The aim of the Risk Management activities of the Law Society is to reduce the incidence and magnitude of insurance claims against South Australian legal practitioners. Together with the Ethics and Practice Unit of the Society, Risk Management staf
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Sep 16, 2020 – Checklists and templates for practitioners to assist manage risks
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Aug 30, 2024 – The Judicial Council on Cultural Diversity delivers an eLearning course designed to give legal practitioners a working understanding of the Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals. Australia’s cultural
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Sep 12, 2024 – LawCare offers practitioners the opportunity to discuss with a general practitioner, Dr Jill, who has experience in treating social and psychological problems, any problem that is interfering with or has the opportunity to interfere with your work pe
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Sep 16, 2020 – Checklists and templates for practitioners to assist manage risks
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Sep 30, 2024 – Maintenance of cyber security continues to be a widespread issue among the legal sector. It is necessary that practitioners educate themselves in cyber security due to the reliance and use of technology in the legal sector.
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Nov 22, 2024 – A list of common Law Society forms, including membership, practising certificate, PSS, trust account and other ethics and practice related issues.
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Aug 13, 2024 – The Official newsletter of the Criminal Law Committee of the Law Society of South Australia.
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Aug 13, 2024 – The Official newsletter of the Family Law Committee of the Law Society of South Australia.
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Jul 20, 2022 – The official newsletter of the Succession and Elder Law Committee of the Law Society of South Australia.
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Aug 21, 2024 – The Wills Register is an initiative of the Law Society's Succession Law Committee and the aim is to provide a secure centralised register containing the location of South Australian Wills. It allows legal practitioners to quickly track down lost Will
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Aug 26, 2024 – Bidding for legal work and engaging with legal brokers raises ethical issues that require consideration by legal practitioners before participation.
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Aug 26, 2024 – This is also a practical guide to assist legal practitioners when they have doubts about their client’s “legal” capacity to give them instructions or to make their own legal decisions. This may be because of illness, intellectual disability, mental
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Aug 26, 2024 – These Guidelines are for legal practitioners who operate a practice from home, but can also assist those practitioners working from home away from their office in relation to issues of client confidentiality and privacy, and duties to the court and t