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View AllScott 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
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Latest Publications
View AllThe Art of Decision Writing: A Practical Introduction to Administrative Decision Writing Under the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act
14-11-19 / Scott McLeod QC — Employment & Industrial
Hosted by the Association of Self Insured Employers of Queensland (ASIEQ) and BT Lawyers, Scott McLeod QC provided a session to senior employment managers highlighting the importance of going back to basics to ensure adequate reasons set out how facts have been evaluated when writing decisions to accept, reject and…
Diamond in the Rough: Finding Value In and Maximising Prospects in Disputes Through Mediation
25-6-19 / Glenn Newton QC, Matthew Hickey — Banking, Building & Construction, Commercial Equity, Contract, Corporate Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Corporations, Employment & Industrial, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Land Law & Property, Media & Defamation, Professional Discipline & Regulatory, Professional Negligence, Resources & Energy
On 18 June 2019 Glenn Newton QC, facilitated by Matthew Hickey, provided a seminar on the essential factors to increase the prospects of a successful mediation. Topics examined included: Recognising what mediation involves Essentials for mediation preparation The central role of emotional intelligence as well as analytical intelligence, and how to…
Originating 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)…
Recent Cases
View AllSmith v Kelsey & Ors; Dalley & Ors v Kelsey & Ors [2020] QCA 55
27-3-20 / Michael Trim — Employment & Industrial
An appeal of an application to stay civil proceedings (involving claims under the Public Interest Disclosure Act and the Industrial Relations Act by the former CEO of the Logan City Council) pending the determination of criminal charges brought against the respondents in the proceedings after the evidence in the civil trial had been heard…
Coronial Inquest into four deaths at Dreamworld
25-2-20 / Matthew Hickey — Building & Construction, Employment & Industrial, Inquiries & Coronial Inquests, Professional Discipline & Regulatory
The inquest into the deaths of four people, who were killed in tragic circumstances on the Thunder River Rapids Ride at Dreamworld on 25 October 2016, involved 59 witnesses and was conducted over 6 weeks. It explored technical, engineering, management, regulatory and other systems failures, all of which the Coroner…
Glass v Workers’ Compensation Regulator [2020] ICQ 001
15-1-20 / Scott McLeod QC — Employment & Industrial
The appellant was a teacher supervising an overseas school trip during which she voluntarily decided to participate in a rope swing activity and injured herself doing so. The rope swing was not an authorised or approved activity for either staff or students. The question before the Commission was whether she…
