Podcasts by Just Chat

Episode 33 - Justice Steven Rares from 2023-11-10T09:00

Soon to retire Justice Steven Rares shares what it's been like to spend 17 years on the Federal Court of Australia. He also speaks about his interest in defamation law and the high profile ...

Episode 32 - Thomas Mayo from 2023-09-29T10:00

With two weeks to go before the referendum on the Voice to Parliament, Amy Dale talks with activist, community leader, and signatory of the Uluru Statement From The Heart, Thomas Mayo about the ...

Episode 31 - Sally Dowling from 2023-09-08T12:00

In this episode, NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling chats about the best advice she has received as a legal practitioner, what justice means to her and her 'must watch' ...

Episode 30: Nicholas Stewart (redux) from 2023-08-10T13:00

The 2022 winner of the Law Society's President's Medal, Nicholas Stewart, returns to Just Chat to discuss the cases and causes close to his heart, the aftermath of his win and recent t...

Episode 29 - Andrew Tiedt from 2023-07-14T09:00

Andrew Tiedt has regularly helped LSJ in articles about Criminal Law. Now he sits down with Francisco Silva to talk about his journey into the profession, his thoughts about the jury sy...

Episode 28 - Dom Knight from 2023-06-09T09:00

Dom Knight was studying law when he founded The Chaser with a group of friends. In this episode of Just Chat, he talks with Floyd Alexander-Hunt about his career with the satirical group, from h...

Episode 27: James Allsop from 2023-04-28T14:00

James Allsop was Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia for 10 years. One month after leaving the role, he talks about how technology is changing the court system, his work in native ti...

Episode 26 - Trent Wallace from 2023-03-17T14:00

For this week, Just Chat becomes Just Yarn. Trent Wallace now lives in Brisbane, but his journey in law went from his community in the Central Coast, to the legal centres in Sydney. He sits down...

Episode 25 - Justice Dina Yehia from 2023-02-10T03:00

For the first episode of 2023, Keely McDonough sits down with NSW Supreme Court Justice Dina Yehia for a discussion about the moments that have shaped her career and how to make the profession m...

Episode 24 - Joanne van der Plaat from 2022-12-15T11:00

For our final episode of 2022, Keely McDonough speaks to the Law Society's outgoing president, Joanne van der Plaat. Joanne reflects on navigating the profession out of COVID, the toll of n...

Episode 23 - Suzie Miller from 2022-11-18T12:00

Playwriter Suzie Miller worked as a lawyer in King's Cross when she got the calling to write a play about the stories she was living. Since then, her career has skyrocketed commercially and...

Episode 22 - Bill Browder from 2022-10-14T13:00

Bill Browder is a financier turned political activist, dubbed a chief enemy of Vladimir Putin. Dialling in from London, he tells Amy Dale about how the murder of his lawyer inspired a global cam...

Episode 21 - Carina Ford from 2022-09-09T10:00

The Murugappan family became the face of Australia's tough asylum-seeker policies. Their lawyer Carina Ford dials in to talk about the family's return to Biloela, the unspoken trauma o...

Episode 19 - Rick Welsh from 2022-07-07T00:00