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View AllJason Mitchenson Joins ICC Young Arbitrators Forum Panel at Australian Arbitration Week 2019
23-10-19 / Jason Mitchenson — Arbitration, International
As part of the proceedings of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration's (ACICA) Australian Arbitration Week 2019, taking place in Brisbane 18-22 November, the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF) will host a session titled 'The way of the future - Arbitration or other options?' Jason Mitchenson will join…
Roger Traves QC & Kristi Riedel Listed By Doyle's Guide as Leading Insurance Counsel QLD 2019
22-10-19 / Roger Traves QC, Kristi Riedel — Insurance
The Doyle's Guide 2019 listings of leading Queensland Insurance & Personal Injury Senior and Junior Counsel details Counsel/Barristers practising within the areas of insurance, personal injuries and professional indemnity matters in the Queensland legal market who have been identified by the state’s defendant insurance and plaintiff personal injury lawyers for…
Scott McLeod QC Joins ASIEQ and BTLawyers Seminar - The Art of Decision Writing
21-10-19 / Scott McLeod QC — Employment & Industrial
Scott McLeod QC and Stuart Unwin (BT Lawyers) will take the audience through real-life examples and outline some practical trips and traps which improve decision writing. Writing decisions to accept, reject and terminate claims can be time consuming and difficult. The experts will review: How to write better decisions How…
Upcoming Seminars
View All*EVENT FULL* Trouble in Paradise: Protecting Privilege After Glencore
24-10-19 @ 5:30 pm
*Due to the popularity of this event registration is now closed. If you would like to be added to the waiting list to attend please contact Tamara McCombe.* What will the seminar cover? The Glencore International AG v Commissioner of Taxation [2019] HCA 26 judgment confirmed that legal professional privilege…
Latest Publications
View AllStrategies for a Successful Mediation
20-9-19 / Matthew Jones — Contract, Commercial Equity, Corporations
Mediation is an undervalued dispute resolution tool which is most successful when properly prepared and planned. At a CLE event hosted by Downs & South Western Qld Law Association on Thursday 5 September, Matthew Jones explored the theory and practice behind successful mediation, including concrete recommendations as to planning offers,…
The Principle of Comity in Public and Private International Law (2019, forthcoming)
11-9-19 / Jason Mitchenson — Arbitration, International
Schultz, Mitchenson & Ridi, The Principle of Comity in Public and Private International Law (2019) Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
Insolvent Trading Trusts: Clarification Re Amerind
21-8-19 / Sean Russell, Mark Eade — Corporate Insolvency & Bankruptcy
Mark Eade and Sean Russell addressed an audience of insolvency practitioners hosted by the Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (ARITA) on 21 August 2019 at the McCullough Robertson office (Brisbane) to offer some clarity on a matter that for a number of decades has been uncertain, the treatment of…
Recent Cases
View AllLake v GBST Holdings Limited [2019] QSC 253
11-10-19 / Damian Clothier QC, Kristi Riedel, Michael Trim — Competition & Consumer, Contract, Employment & Industrial
The plaintiff’s principal claim against their former employer was for damages for the wrongful purported termination of their employment in 2015. The plaintiff had been the defendant company's chief executive officer since 2001. The respondent purported to terminate the plaintiff's employment for breach of its share trading policy for its…
Sochorova v Durairaj & anor [2019] QSC 251
10-10-19 / Matthew Hickey — Professional Negligence
The plaintiff, an 84-year-old woman, suffered a clotting stroke. It was not her first; she had experienced previous strokes. Upon her arrival at the Cairns Hospital (which the second defendant operates), the medical team (including the first defendant, an experienced neurologist) treated the plaintiff with thrombolysis. She survived but, despite…
Equititrust Limited v Tucker and Others (No 2) [2019] QSC 248
4-10-19 / Damian Clothier QC, Bianca Kabel — Commercial Equity, Corporations
These were further applications in the matter of Equititrust Limited v Tucker and Others. The defendants sought to summarily dismiss parts, or all, of the plaintiff’s claim, by striking out parts of the further amended statement of claim, without leave to replead, or for summary judgment. Applications were also made…
