How are Australia’s legal regulators, the ones meant to keep lawyers in check, anything more than a protection racket? The company behind this channel faces constant threats. Michael West exposes how far lawyers are prepared to go for a buck.
Make no mistake, given Australia’s draconian defamation laws and feeble regulation of lawyers, any poster on social media is a target.
After being sued by a law firm tied to government work, we reveal how the system allows lawyers’ conflicts of interest, threats and intimidation to go unpunished. Worse, this IS the legal profession, as the NSW Bar Association and the ACT Law Society actions demonstrate.
00:00 – The Regulators Exposed
04:40 – The Lawsuit
11:00 – Court and Costs
17:50 – The Threat
27:00 – No Accountability
Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.
