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View AllAngus O'Brien on Lighthouse Club Panel: Being Effective Junior Counsel/Lawyer/Expert
16-9-21 / Angus O'Brien — Arbitration, Building & Construction
Thursday 23 September 1700, Lighthouse Club Brisbane will host a panel consisting of a junior counsel, a lawyer and a lead assistant expert who will provide ideas on how to provide effective support to senior counsel, law firm partners and experts in matters of construction arbitration and litigation. They will…
Level Twenty Seven Assist ADC-ICC APAC Commercial Mediation Competition 2021
9-9-21 / Matthew Jones, Shane Monks, Mohammud Jaamae Hafeez-Baig — International
The Asia-Pacific Commercial Mediation Competition (APCMC) hosted by the Australian Disputes Centre, is open to student teams from universities across Australia, Asia, the South Pacific, India, the Americas and Africa. The 5th annual competition takes place 10-12 September 2021. Queensland Convener for the QLD branch of CIArb Shane Monks and international…
The Law of Tracing - Book Launch
26-8-21 / Mohammud Jaamae Hafeez-Baig — Banking, Commercial Equity, Corporate Insolvency & Bankruptcy
The Law of Tracing is co-authored by Mohammud Jaamae Hafeez-Baig, who practises from Level Twenty Seven Chambers, and Jordan English, Stipdendary Lecturer at the University of Oxford. The book aims to provide a comprehensive account of the law of tracing. It offers clear answers to fundamental questions such as "what…
Upcoming Seminars
View AllACICA Australian Arbitration Week Webinar - Functus Officio in arbitration
22-10-21 @ 8:00 am / Shane Doyle QC, Sarah Spottiswood — Arbitration, International
What will the seminar cover? This session forms part of the Australian Arbitration Week program hosted by ACICA. It will explore the situations where an arbitrator might be said to have performed its office so as to be (wholly or as to particular aspects of the referred dispute) functus officio.…
The State of Play: Work Health and Safety Prosecutions
28-10-21 @ 12:30 pm / Kristi Riedel — Insurance, Inquiries & Coronial Inquests
What will the seminar cover? Last year saw QLD’s first sentencing decision in relation to the offence of industrial manslaughter pursuant to the Work Health and Safety Act 2011. Since the introduction of the offence in 2017 we have seen the establishment of the Office of the Work Health and…
Legally Bound literature meeting - The Trial
15-12-21 @ 6:00 pm
Legally Bound is a meeting of law students, legal practitioners and advisors, in association with The Legal Forecast Creative, to discuss non-fiction and fiction texts which raise issues impacting the law. This is a friendly, non-political and inclusive group, as such conversation will focus on how the texts provide thought on how the…
Latest Publications
View AllRules of Evidence & Affidavit Drafting
10-9-21 / Kristi Riedel, Rachel De Luchi, Sarah Spottiswood
In the third in a series of four presentations hosted by Queensland Young Lawyers (QYL) and Level Twenty Seven Chambers, Kristi Riedel, Rachel De Luchi and Sarah Spottiswood discussed the the role of affidavits, expert reports and expert witnesses in court proceedings. Some of the topics they clarified were: Procedural…
High Court affirms parties can effectively contract out of some statutory limitation periods
22-7-21 / Nicholas Andreatidis QC, Anthony Messina, Sophie Gibson — Contract, Banking
Nicholas Andreatidis QC, Anthony Messina and Sophie Gibson appeared for the respondents in Price v Spoor [2021] HCA 20, instructed by Mullins Lawyers. This was an action to recover principal and interest owed under two mortgages, and for possession of the land secured by the mortgages, the appellants pleaded statutory limitations defences. This…
Legal Technology: lessons learned from the pandemic and strategies for the future
16-7-21 / Nicholas Andreatidis QC
Friday 16 July 2021, the Law Council of Australia hosted its regular 'Hot Topics in Commonwealth Compensation' program, chaired by The Hon Justice David Thomas, President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. This year's edition was online only with Nicholas Andreatidis QC, of these chambers, contributing to the panel 'Legal Technology:…
Recent Cases
View AllGoldsmith & Anor v AMP Life Ltd [2021] HCASL 133
12-10-21 / David Chesterman — Contract
This was an application for special leave to appeal from the decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal in [2021] 9 QLR; [2021] QCA 20. David Chesterman appeared for the respondent. Gordon and Edelman JJ refused the extension of time to seek special leave to appeal on the basis of…
Yue v CN-AU Capital Pty Ltd [2021] QSC 248
1-10-21 / Damian Clothier QC, Matthew Hickey OAM — Contract, Land Law & Property, Commercial Equity
A dispute arose between parties to a deed of agreement, as to whether the deed required a payment for the release of mortgages to be made by bank cheque, and if so whether the mortgagee was entitled to exercise its power of sale because the deed had been breached (the…
Chevron Australia Pty Ltd v CBI Constructors Pty Ltd [2021] WASC 323
28-9-21 / Shane Doyle QC — Arbitration, Building & Construction, Contract, International
Supreme Court of Western Australia proceedings arising from a contractual dispute between Chevron and joint venturer contractors CBI Constructors Pty Ltd and Kentz Pty Ltd (CKJV). Prior to the proceedings, the parties participated in a bifurcated arbitration concerning a contractor’s entitlement to payment for development of a significant infrastructure project…
