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Profession updates
New QCAT PD: Animal decisions review
24 June 2022
EVENT: Opening of the Law Year Church Service
24 June 2022
Important changes for PI practitioners
23 June 2022
New Supreme Court applications PD
21 June 2022
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Elder abuse awareness
Legal practitioners, as trusted advisors, are in a key position to detect elder abuse among clients. QLS Proctor takes a closer look at the complex dynamics at play.
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.
Human Rights Week 2021
QLS Proctor embraces Human Rights Week 2021, an initiative of the Queensland Human Rights Commission running from 1 to 10 December.
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Perspectives
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Michelle Morton won the Agnes McWhinney Award in 2015, 100 years after Agnes became Queensland’s first female solicitor.
Cayla Marchant
- Perspectives
The development of DNA testing provides useful background information for the Commission of Inquiry into DNA testing in Queensland.
Jason Murakami, Ron Behlau
- Perspectives
A practical demonstration of how a fatigue-related accident can be conclusively attributed to an employer is found in Kerle v BM Alliance Coal Operations Pty Ltd and Ors.
Hugh Powell
In business
- Career moves
Jack Fairweather, Michael Smith, Sarah McCabe, Alexandra Hall, Jessica Bell, Jolynda Turner, Peter Nicholls, Verity Smith, Alexandria Batakin, Ben Leong, Emily Burns, Jackson Evans, Justine Porter, Karl Friman, Lauren Thomas, Portia Costello, Sam Poncini, Samantha Doneman, Victoria Mercer, Xavier Devlin.
- Career moves
Hugh Powell, Trent Johnson, Beth Rolton, Kelly Phelps, Rachel Last
In practice
- In practice
In the legal world, the nuclear option is litigation, and just as Smith should have thought better of slapping Rock, we need to ensure our clients think long and hard before pulling the trigger on court action.
Shane Budden
- Casenotes
Stubbings v Jams 2 Pty Ltd [2022] HCA 6
Dr Michelle Sharpe
- Casenotes
Eddy v Goulburn Mulwaree Council [2022] NSWCA 87
Rachel Last
Wellbeing
- Mental health
The willingness of senior judicial officers to reveal their mental health struggles reminds all practitioners to look to their own mental wellbeing.
Glen Cranwell
- 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
Outside the law
- Suburban cowboy
Shane Budden
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