Townsville Magistrate Jessica Keir was awarded honorary membership of the Queensland Law Society at the Townsville President’s Dinner last Thursday.
Practitioners from around the region gathered at the Rockpool Pavilion, where QLS President Peter Jolly and Townsville District Law Association President Adrienne Hollis gave an address, and Townsville District Court Judge Chris Kahler delivered a toast to the profession.
Regional practitioners Luckbir Singh, John Hayward and Trevor Hauff received silver QLS pins at the President’s Dinner in Cairns last week.
Seeing first-hand how the legal system could shape the lives of First Nations families was a reason Connor McGovern-Cubby decided to study law.
What must be strictly resisted is any temptation to regard “off the record” as equivalent to without prejudice.
Pippa Colman Family Law will work collaboratively with fertility clinics, counsellors, psychologists, medical practitioners and other professionals involved in surrogacy.
The hours can be brutal. The work is emotionally exhausting. I do it because I quickly learnt that what happens in those places matters.
The Administrative Review Tribunal decision addressed a recurring question: when does supervision become a justice responsibility rather than a disability support?
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