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‘The Use of Foreign Law by the High Court of Australia’ (2018) 46(2) Federal Law Review 161

1-6-21 / Sarah Spottiswood — Appellate, International, Judicial Review & Administrative

Justices of the High Court of Australia have a broad discretion to follow foreign judicial decisions based on whether they consider a decision to be persuasive. But it is difficult to assess what it is about a foreign decision that makes it likely to be followed by the High Court.…

Judicial Review No Replacement for QLD Industrial Magistrates Court

12-3-21 / Matthew Hickey OAM KC, Sophie Gibson — Judicial Review & Administrative

Matthew Hickey and Sophie Gibson appeared for the successful respondent in Whiteley v Stone & Anor, the first application to the Supreme Court of Queensland for judicial review of powers to cancel a certificate of competency issued to an open-cut examiner for a coal mine created under amendments to the…

Case Note: Special Leave to A Pell (2020) 6 Proctor 14

1-6-20 / Chris Stackpoole — Judicial Review & Administrative

Chris Stackpoole authored 'Case note: Special Leave to A Pell' featured in the June 2020 Edition of the Queensland Law Society Proctor magazine. In this piece, Chris provides an analysis on the special leave application in the Pell v The Queen [2020] HCA 12 case. The article focuses on the legal and…

Trouble in Paradise: Protecting Privilege After Glencore

25-10-19 / Nicholas Andreatidis KC, Sophie Gibson, James Green — Commercial Equity, Judicial Review & Administrative

The Glencore International AG v Commissioner of Taxation [2019] HCA 26 judgment confirmed that legal professional privilege is a shield, not a sword. A panel was facilitated by Nicholas Andreatidis QC, consisting of Level Twenty Seven Chambers barristers James Green and Sophie Gibson and forensic expert Brendan Read (KordaMentha), discussing the…

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)…