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View AllRoger Traves QC and Rob Anderson QC to present at AILA one day intensive
3-4-19 / Roger Traves QC, Rob Anderson QC — Insurance, Media & Defamation
Roger Traves QC and Rob Anderson QC will join a host of presenters at the Australian Lawyers Association's (AILA) one day intensive professional development programme on Friday 24 May at the Calile Hotel, Brisbane. Roger will join the "'I'll Have Mine With Chips' - Out of the Frypan and Out…
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View AllOriginating process, pleadings and amendment: Queensland
8-4-19 / James Green, Borcsa Vass — Banking, Building & Construction, Commercial Equity, Competition & Consumer, Contract, Corporate Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Corporations, Employment & Industrial, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Judicial Review & Administrative, Land Law & Property, Media & Defamation, Planning & Environment, Professional Negligence, Resources & Energy, Succession
James Green and Borcsa Vass have contributed the chapter 'Originating process, pleadings and amendment: Queensland' to Thomson Reuters' Practical Law Australia Dispute Resolution module. This chapter explains how proceedings are commenced and the practice and procedure of pleadings, particulars and amendment in Queensland under the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld)…
Notes for a Scandal: is it worthwhile & how to justify what is said in defamation cases
29-3-19 / Rob Anderson QC, Matthew Wilkinson, Rachel De Luchi — Media & Defamation
On Thursday 28 March 2019 Rob Anderson QC, Rachel De Luchi and Matthew Wilkinson (Level Twenty Seven Chambers) presented on the defences of triviality and justification under the Defamation Act 2005 (Qld). Brendan Read (Executive Director, KordaMentha) reviewed how to go about collecting electronic data for defamation cases. Rachel De Luchi discussed the challenges of smaller defamation claims…
Recent Cases
View AllState of Queensland (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) v Humane Society International (Australia) Inc [2019] FCA 534
16-4-19 / Matthew Hickey — Appellate, Judicial Review & Administrative
In the Federal Court of Australia, Logan J granted a stay of a decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, by which it had varied the conditions of a permit, which the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority had granted to the State of Queensland. The Tribunal's decision prevented the state…
Spoor & Ors v Price & Ors [2019] QSC 53
12-4-19 / Nicholas Andreatidis QC, Anthony Messina, Jason Mitchenson — Contract
The plaintiffs (as mortgagee) sued the defendants (as mortgagor) for principal and interest owing under two registered mortgages. The plaintiffs also sued for possession of the mortgaged land to exercise a power of sale. The claim was defended and a counterclaim brought on the grounds that the limitations period had…
Sunland Group Limited & Anor v Gold Coast City Council [2019] QPEC 14
4-4-19 / Shane Doyle QC, Stewart Webster — Planning & Environment
Further proceedings concerning ASX listed property development company Sunland Group Limited, establishing its continuing right to rely on a Preliminary Approval as determining the amount of infrastructure contributions and credits payable for a major development project at Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast. Shane Doyle QC and Stewart Webster appeared…
