23-9-22 / Damian Clothier KC, Sean Russell — Judicial Review & Administrative
An appeal against the refusal by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal to renew a solicitor’s practising certificate for not being a fit and proper person. The appellant designed a ‘diamond model’ which misrepresented a consumer credit loan service as a business where customers purchased and sold diamonds. The intention…
8-9-22 / Sean Russell — Land Law & Property
A dispute concerning whether an L-shaped area of land in Brisbane's CBD had been effectively dedicated as a public highway at common law. The land had been created by the registration of a plan of subdivision by the Trustees of the Brisbane Grammar School in 1876. By 1989, the laneway…
9-3-22 / Sean Russell — Corporate Insolvency & Bankruptcy
Sean Russell appeared for the first and second respondents, instructed by Mills Oakley. The judgment is published here.
17-2-22 / Sean Russell — Contract
The plaintiff sought a debt due and owing, or alternatively damages, in relation to services provided under a Consultancy Agreement and the subsequent entry into a Deed of Agreement between the plaintiff and the first and second defendants. There were three applications related to this matter. The first, by the…
7-12-21 / Michael May, Sean Russell — Arbitration, Land Law & Property
An application to determine whether a dispute, the subject of a proceeding in the Supreme Court, should be allowed to continue and whether directions should be made, or whether the proceedings should be stayed and the dispute determined by an expert pursuant to a contractual provision providing for alternate dispute…
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