Australia

The Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association is holding on Monday its inaugural International Legal Conference to in the Greek island of Rhodes. Australia's most eminent jurists, including High Court Chief Justice Susan Kiefel, will be present at the opening ceremony which...

Greek-Australian commercial lawyer Steven Sapountsis was appointed as the new president of the Law Institute of Victoria for the year 2016. Sapountsis is special counsel at Moores and has 32 years experience in litigation and regulatory and compliance work. His...

Greek-Australian lawyer Manny Conditsis said that his former client Man Haron Monis, the man behind the Sydney Siege, was an “isolated figure.” The Iranian refugee “came to Australia in the late 1990s as I understand it, obtained political asylum...

Greek-Australian lawyers have established their own professional association entitled the Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association. According to official data, more than 700 Greek-Australian lawyers have already joined the association, the official presentation of which will be held in Melbourne, on Friday, April...

Magda Karagiannakis is a Greek-Australian University Lecturer at the La Trobe University in Melbourne. She is an adviser to the United Nations on legal matters and an interrogator for substantial international cases, occasionally handling major cases such as crimes...

For more than three years, a Greek Sydney lawyer, James Dimitrious, was using his clients money for personal purposes. He had convinced his clients that their capital was safe in his personal account but it wasn't. It was proved...

The Greek lawyer, Stavros Komninos, recently passed away. Komninos was the first Greek lawyer in Queensland. He was a revolutionary man, fighting for the rights of  Aborigines and the protection of the environment. According to his son Thanassis, he genuinely loved...

Lawyer Theodora Achila of Greek descent, has fought twenty years for the vindication of hundreds of asbestos victims in Australia. Eventually her efforts were rewarded with the Justice Award, and the victims vindicated. The Justice Award is the highest award...

The highly-regarded inspection Australasian Legal Business Review has named Vasilis Papastergiadis one of the 10 best lawyers in Australia and Asia for this year. He is also President of the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne. The magazine cited him for...

Giorgos Bizos –Nelson Mandela’s greek lawyer- is due to visit Australia for a series of lectures on Human Rights in South Africe. As expat lawyer and organisor of the visit, George Georgiou of Perth announced, George Bizos will be...

Greek-Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has pleaded guilty to the assault of his ex-girlfriend, Chiara Passari, but has ultimately avoided a criminal conviction. The court case related to an incident in 2021, when Kyrgios pushed Passari to the ground during...

The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia Makarios Griniezakis is suing Alkis Morelas, a Greek-Australian journalist, for defamation in Sydney’s Federal Court. The Archbishops took legal action against Morelas after the journalist wrote a number of articles alleging that Griniezakis used...

Australia canceled Novak Djokovic's visa for a second time on Friday, just days before the start of the Australian Open on Monday. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke used his personal powers to cancel Novak Djokovic’s visa, as the tennis player's lawyers...

Novak Djokovic won his appeal against Australia's decision to cancel his visa on Monday, with a judge reinstating his visa and ordering that he be released from hotel quarantine immediately. Djokovic had spent four nights in an immigration detention hotel...

The Leader of The Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, has shown his support for the recognition of the Greek genocide on Monday.