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Opinion: Smartphones, sexting and sexual Harassment
Whilst the laws are playing catch up with technology, they are being updated with more changes ahead. Sara Delpopolo explains
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How far should schools go when screening candidates?
A leading employment lawyer offers advice to school leaders about conducting thorough background checks
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Can you ban staff from interacting with students over social media?
You can’t stop them from saying hello in the street, so can you really expect the same online? Here, a leading education lawyer weighs in
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How to handle an aggressive parent
Abusive or violent parents are a major disruption and a danger to others – here, a leading education lawyer explains how schools should respond
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Lawyer reveals most common social-media mistake
Schools are still getting to grips with the legal intricacies of social media
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Can you ban a parent from the school grounds?
A leading education lawyer explains how schools can respond if a parent’s behaviour is inappropriate or unacceptable
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New ‘reportable conduct’ regime will impose significant obligations on schools
The Educator speaks with a lawyer to find out what the new reportable conduct regime in Victoria means for the state's schools
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Ask a Lawyer: How to navigate disability discrimination in schools
The Educator speaks to Sarah Jones and Jennifer Parkes, partners at Hicksons Lawyers, about ways that principals should approach the issue of disability discrimination
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Taking legal studies to the next level
One company is enhancing the legal education students receive at school and showing them that new-gen law firms do exist
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Could this controversial answer to bullying work?
A controversial idea to help schools stamp out bullying has become the subject of a new two-part documentary
