Presented by Damien Carrick, the Law Report on ABC Radio National focuses on breaking legal stories across Australia and overseas, analysing law reform, legal education, test cases, miscarriages of justice and examining legal culture. The following is a summary of recent programs with a link to audio and transcripts.

Mark Standen

 NSW Law Enforcement is in shock after the assistant director of the State Crime Commission, Mark Standen, was found guilty of conspiring to import drugs and pervert the course of justice.

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Frank Cassar: Australia's worst landlord?

Melbourne landlord Frank Cassar has a string of unpaid court orders. He and his wife have just been told by the Supreme Court: stop dealing with tenants and hire a real estate agent.

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Canberra and Big Tobacco are at war over plain packaging of cigarettes.

There's a Freedom of Information battle raging in the Federal Court, a dispute over rights spelled out in the HK-Australia Business Investment Treaty and a likely constitutional challenge - it centres on whether or not Canberra is taking away intellectual property without just compensation.

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Proceeds of crime legislation

Federal prosecutors are trying to seize the profits from his autobiography Guantanamo My Journey which has, since October last year, sold 30,000 copies.

Captured in Afghanistan, Hicks was detained for five and half years in Guantanamo Bay before pleading guilty to supporting terrorism.

He was repatriated to an Australian prison in May 2007 and released in December of that year.

Last week prosecutors using the federal Proceeds of Crime Act succeeded in freezing bank accounts pending a full trial

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Justice Kevin Duggan