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Magistrates Court practice directions
26 November 2021
FCFCOA update – grace period for old forms ending
26 November 2021
QCAT updates discipline applications PD
25 November 2021
Valedictory ceremony to farewell Justice Daubney AM
25 November 2021
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Are law graduates ready for the real world?
A new research project is looking into whether Queensland law graduates and newly admitted lawyers are adequately prepared for the ‘real’ world.
Focus on voluntary assisted dying
QLS Proctor looks at how voluntary assisted dying is expected to work, and also republishes a 2019 special feature that offered a range of viewpoints on this topical subject.
Community legal volunteers
Queensland has 34 not-for-profit community legal centres (CLCs). They have a long, established history of harnessing volunteer support and providing pro bono legal advice and assistance to society’s most vulnerable.
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Perspectives
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The underfunding of legal services in Australia has reached crisis point, and urgent changes are needed.
QLS 2021 President Elizabeth Shearer
- Perspectives
In a bizarre Texas legislative 'experiment', private citizens are being offered a bounty to enforce public law via the courts.
Matt Dunn
- Perspectives
Both state and federal leave provisions are available to those who suffer a miscarriage or stillbirth, along with their partners.
Glen Cranwell
In business
- Early career lawyers
The QLS Future Leaders Committee wraps up the year that was and looks forward to 2022.
Kate Pidgeon, Minnie Hannaford
In practice
- Casenotes
Sending text instructions to a witness providing testimony remotely has led to significant disciplinary consequences for a US lawyer.
Shane Budden
Wellbeing
- Wellbeing
As we settle in to a 'new normal', what have we learnt about the pros and cons of working from home?
Belinda Winter, Jack Bristed
- Mental health, Wellbeing
As restrictions continue to ease and we approach the year's end, are we forgetting COVID-19's effect on mental health?
Simon Playford
- Wellbeing
In the final of four articles, Cathryn Urquhart looks at the application of mindfulness on personal and corporate levels.
Cathryn Urquhart
Outside the law
- Outside the law
Art is flourishing in the shadow of Brisbane's courts, with a pop-up gallery delivering artworks that echo its name, Mostly Legal.
Tony Keim
- Suburban cowboy
Reader advisory: This article contains references to kittens falling off space stations.
Shane Budden
- Suburban cowboy
For those who aren’t mechanically inclined, I advise that the brakes are the thing on the car which stops it from moving.
Shane Budden
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