A former Brisbane lawyer jailed on child pornography charges has been struck off and denied a request to have his identity suppressed. The President of the...
As you may be aware, Google has released an urgent update for its Chrome browser to fix a potential security problem. The Australian Government’s Cyber Security...
Our world has begun to tentatively unfold itself as COVID (sort of) recedes, much the way a spider playing dead begins to cautiously unball itself when...
The COVID-19 pandemic, throughout 2020 and into 2021, has obviously had widespread impacts on the legal community (and the broader global community). In Queensland and Australia,...
Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal President Justice Martin Daubney AM has recommended that a former solicitor convicted of a serious domestic violence assault be struck off...
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [2021] FCAFC 49 (9 April 2021) concerned the pecuniary penalty imposed on Volkswagen for its admitted contraventions of...
In Patrick Stevedores Holdings Pty Ltd v Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (No.3) [2021] FCA 348 (1 April 2021) the court rejected a report...
In Syms [2021] FamCAFC 38 (26 March 2021) the Full Court (Aldridge, Watts and Austin JJ) heard an appeal where a mother unsuccessfully argued that her...
In Obannon & Scarffe [2021] FamCAFC 33 (10 March 2021) the Full Court (Kent, Watts and Austin JJ) heard the wife’s appeal from an order that...
On a Saturday afternoon in 1937, Mrs Chester’s seven-year-old boy drowned in a water-filled trench that a careless council had left unfenced. Justice Evatt wrote, “the...