- First nations
Despite COVID-19, reconciliation must continue with the aim of achieving concrete, culturally viable results for a genuinely reconciled future.
, Joshua Apanui
Perspectives
- Perspectives
While COVID-19 is a massive event, older practitioners have survived other global crises, and are ready to offer younger lawyers some words of wisdom and encouragement.
, Tony Keim
- Perspectives
Victorian legislation allowing contingency fees is likely to bring practitioners into conflicts of interest.
, Shane Budden, Stafford Shepherd
- Perspectives
Two Aboriginal men, born overseas but residing in Australia, faced deportation because of criminal offences, until the High Court delivered a very significant verdict.
, Kate Slack, Arron Hartnett
- Perspectives
Access to justice and pro bono has always been critically important to Emile McPhee. Find out what access to justice means to him.
, QLS Legal Policy Team
- Perspectives
And why all practitioners should have their say in the QLS 2020 Access to Justice Survey.
- Perspectives
Does your law firm need a new logo? Here's some food for thought.
, Shane Budden
- Perspectives
What does the NRL have to do with the work of Queensland Law Society policy committees?
, Shane Budden
- Perspectives
And why all practitioners should have their say in the QLS 2020 Access to Justice Survey.
, QLS Legal Policy Team
- News, Perspectives
Sexual harassment in the legal profession is longstanding and has proved an intractable problem in its incidence, reporting and effects. Nearly half of all female lawyers in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific report being sexaully harassed at work.
, Kate Galloway
- Perspectives
According to Sisters Inside CEO Debbie Kilroy OAM, it is “beyond outrageous” that more than 400 Aboriginal people have died in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) report was tabled on 15 April 1991.
, Joshua Apanui
- Perspectives, Spotlight
That was because there was “a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted because the evidence did not establish guilt to the requisite standard of proof”1
, Christopher Stackpoole
- Perspectives
I credit my journey into the legal profession to a conversation I had with my late-grandmother in England when I was 12 years old.
, Sheetal Deo
- Perspectives, Spotlight
Lord Atkin’s seminal analysis has been the foundation of the law of negligence throughout the common law world.
, Bevan Hughes
- Perspectives, Spotlight
We are now relying on phone and videoconferencing facilities. It might seem easy enough to simply subscribe to an online videoconferencing provider – but have you considered the need for staff training to highlight security features and concerns of your chosen videoconferencing platform?
, QLS Ethics and Practice Centre
- Perspectives, Spotlight
The immediate crisis and panic of those last weeks in March may have passed, but the ‘new normal’ is likely to be here for some months to come.
, Rob Stevenson
- Perspectives, Spotlight
Working remotely for an extended period can present new challenges, especially for parents when schools are closed. So, how can you stay productive while working from home?
, Petris Lapis
- Perspectives
As we all struggle to adapt to our new, post-COVID-19 environment, it will be interesting how businesses adapt to evolve to not only survive in this brave new world. The legal industry is no different.
, Brendan Nyst
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