This week is Human Rights Week which will culminate on Human Rights Day and this year's theme is All Humans are Born Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights.
QLS Disability and Accessibility Network member Ashleigh DoRozario writes about her experience of court accessibility on International Day of People with Disability.
To mark International Day of People with Disability, lawyer and former nurse Libby Thomas and Occupational Therapist and Behaviour Practitioner Justine McKeogh look at neurodiversity in the profession.
'It has been natural to recruit litigators to be mediators of disputes. Litigators know how to analyse the issues and can understand how they relate to the dispute.'
What is lacking from this discourse is any evidence for the claim that new regulation will effectively reduce money laundering, or that the vast compliance cost (ultimately paid by clients) represents value for money.
The Society’s call is rooted in the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which affirms the best interests of the child should be a primary consideration in all actions.
Given the contribution of law firms and their clients to Queensland’s economy, the loss of efficiencies due to use of a paper-based system has broad flow-on effects.
The QLS Call to Parties statement calls for urgent change to the way government implements policies and laws which affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Proctor continues to showcase roles in the legal profession. Our seventh in the series features personal injuries lawyer, Director of Hughes and Lewis Legal Belinda Hughes.
