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Practice Advisory Service offers free state-wide consultations

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Practice and procedure – freezing order extending to assets overseas – whether enforcement of Australian judgment in foreign jurisdiction needs to be a ‘realistic possibility’ or ‘not impossible’

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Costs – husband wins appeal of costs order – wife’s settlement offer did not conclude all matters in issue

Solicitor disciplined over failure to obtain opponent’s consent for court communication

Children – single expert – general child and family psychiatrist preferred over specialist perinatal psychiatrist

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Criminal practice – directions to jury

Real property – Torrens system

Updated regulatory regime for Queensland engineering

Further provision application clarifies limits to District Court monetary jurisdiction

Practice Advisory Service offers free state-wide consultations

Overlooked defence leads to disciplinary action

Duties of applicants in ex parte applications

Does what happens in Dubai stay in Dubai?

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QCAT president strikes off Gold Coast criminal lawyer jailed for drug trafficking

QCAT’s use of assessors in ‘lemon’ vehicle cases

Administrative law – migration – cancellation of visa under s501(3A) of the Migration Act (Cth) on character grounds – judicial review – requirement for decision-maker to engage in an ‘honest confrontation’ with the consequences of removal

Corporations – financial services and markets – whether defendants were carrying on a financial services business by issuing financial products – whether loan agreements were financial products

Practice and procedure – freezing order extending to assets overseas – whether enforcement of Australian judgment in foreign jurisdiction needs to be a ‘realistic possibility’ or ‘not impossible’

Key details of the COVID-19 extension Act

A year of digital adoption for QLD’s property industry

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Mrs Chester’s lost child: Inconsolable psychological injury and Evatt J’s finest judgment

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High Court answers conservative think tank query on foreign influence laws

Court disagrees with cyclist who says sun hat trumps helmet

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