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  • Book - Brisbane Breached: The Story of a Drought Defaulted Floodplain
  • Book - The Immigration of Irish Lawyers to Australia in the Nineteenth Century - Causes and Consequences
  • Book - The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It
  • Book - Law: The Way of the Ancestors
  • Book - Killing for Country: A Family Story
  • Book - Seddon on Deeds, 2nd Edition, 2022
  • Book - You Talk, We Die: The battle for Victoria's First Safe Injecting Facility
  • Album - Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
  • Song - Eric Clapton (Derek and The Dominos) ‘Layla’
  • Words from the Past
  • Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Persuasion (2008)
  • Courtesy In Court - A Caveat! (2011)
  • The Courts and the Parliament (2012)
  • Professional Conduct and Practice
  • How to Correct a Misleading Statement Made in Court
  • The Ethics and Legality of Conferring with Another Party’s Expert
  • Ethical Witness Preparation
  • Bullfry Fights for “Face Time”
  • A Decision to Maintain Confidence in the Legal Profession
  • 6000 Emails Too Many
  • Magistrates ‘Uncomfortable’ with Single Justice Procedure
  • "Breach of Counsel's Professional Responsibility" by Delivering Submissions After Hearing or Beyond Leave Granted Upon Hearing
  • Amendment to Barristers' Conduct Rules Proscribing Barristers Enjoying Interest in Solicitors’ Practices
  • Barristers' Conduct Rules Proscribe Barrister Acting as a Paid Executor or Administrator or Acting as a Lawyer in Estate
  • Advocacy
  • What’s My Loss? “True Value” under Australian Consumer Law
  • US Senior Appellate Judge Opines Generative AI has a Role to Play in Argument and Adjudication
  • Vulnerability and Uncertainty in Purely Economic Loss
  • The Court’s Role in Supporting Commercial Arbitration and Giving Effect to Arbitration Clauses
  • Precedent in English Law
  • Federalism, the Courts and Class Actions
  • The Role and Running of Commissions of Inquiry: Australian Academy of Law seminar
  • On the Admissibility of Common Forms of Evidence in Fraud/Corruption Trials
  • The Impact and Use of Inconsistent Statements in a Criminal Trial 
  • But for the Civil Liability Act…
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  • 10 Minutes with...QLRC Chair Fleur Kingham
  • The Honourable Bruce McPherson CBE Memorial Lecture 2024
  • Fast and Slow Thinking by Judges and other Human Beings
  • Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions or Targeting Judicial Independence?
  • Seven Random Points about Judging
  • Evidence in Chief in Criminal Trials
  • The Operation of the International Criminal Court
  • Unanswered Questions about the Rules of Precedent
  • A New Regime for Expert Evidence in Supreme Court Criminal Proceedings
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  • Queenslanders at the PNG Bar: Wear a Coloured Shirt at Your Peril!
  • Queensland Bar’s Involvement in South Pacific Education
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  • Book - The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial
  • Book - Man Alone
  • Book - Corporate Law and Governance in the 21st Century
  • Book - Slow Horses
  • Book - An Annotated Guide to the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld)
  • Book - Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
  • Book - The Plant Thieves
  • Album - The Rolling Stones 'Hackney Diamonds' (2023)
  • Book - Evidence Law in Queensland (14th edition)
  • Song - The Pogues 'Fairytale Of New York'
  • Words From The Past
  • Evidence and Truth (2017)
  • When the High Court Went on Strike (2016)
  • Concurrent Evidence in the Kilmore East Bushfire Proceeding (2016)
  • Professional Conduct and Practice
  • Noblesse of the Robe
  • Citation of Authority -  Supreme Court Practice Direction No 1 of 2024
  • Lay Witness Evidence “Distorted and Manipulated” by Lawyer and Expert
  • A Hitout as a British Barrister
  • Lawyer Found to have Engaged in Professional Misconduct for Gross Discourtesy to Fellow Practitioner in Email Correspondence
  • Don't Conduct Hearing if You Feel Unsafe, LCJ tells Judges
  • Spanish Arbitrator Jailed in Relation to an International Arbitration
  • ACSC Guide to Cyber Security in Business/Professional Practice
  • Prosecutor’s Discretion to Initiate or Maintain Indictment Salient, Say Judges
  • "And so it Ends": Prominent Judge Quits in Open Court after DPP Complaint
  • Advocacy
  • Opening Addresses in Criminal Trials
  • Limits on the Duty of Utmost Good Faith
  • "All I wanted to do was go Home and have some Sushi …" - on the Criminality of Anti-Social Behaviour
  • Copyright – Chou v Metstech
  • Sometimes Form is a Matter of Substance
  • Application of ACL to Contract Made Outside Australia
  • High Court Rules on Restitution of Unlawfully Levied Special Rates
  • Reflections on the Lehrmann Trial: Part 1 - Open Justice in the Modern (Australian) Courtroom
  • Contempt of Court for Breach of Injunction
  • Orders for Costs Against Non-Party Litigation Funders
  • Inter Alia
  • Bar Cricket - Tub’s Club and CJ’s Trophy are Ours!
  • Vale: Deirdre Francis O’Connor (February 1941 – January 2024)
  • Contemporary Leaders Need to Measure Value – Not Time, Clicks or Keystrokes
  • The Bicentenary of the Establishment of the Judiciary in Australia
  • Criminal Law: Then, Now, Tomorrow
  • Bullying in Court by Judges and Counsel - Bully for Bullfry
  • Satisfying Self-Represented Litigants and Assisting Visiting Counsel with Local Knowledge – Neither Usually Ends Well!
  • Australia’s Mediator Accreditation System Set to Evolve in 2024
  • Updated AIJA Criteria for Judicial Appointment
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  • Generative AI and the Bar - A Long Way from the Horse and Cart but still a Fair Way to Travel!
  • 10 Minutes with...ChatGPT
  • Wrong Side of the Law: What Raised Judges’ Ire in 2023
  • Is the Civil Trial System Past its Use-by Date?
  • Lessons from the UK’s Post Office Scandal
  • Is a US President Immune from Criminal Acts?
  • Magistrate Wickham at Moreton Bay – Master of all he Surveyed
  • Insolvent Corporate Trustees: Just More Questions
  • Actions for Aviation Injuries and Death
  • Peak Interest Rates - Are We There Yet?     
  • Issue 94: Dec 2023
  • From the President
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  • Retirement of the Hon Susan Kiefel AC KC as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
  • The Honourable David Francis Jackson AM KC
  • US Supreme Court Adopts Judicial Code of Conduct
  • Judicial Bullying: The Last of the Legal Bloodsports?
  • 10 Minutes with...the Honourable George Brandis KC
  • Can Stoic Virtues Help Modern Lawyers Meet their Ethical Obligations?
  • Vale: Sandra Day O’Connor (1930-2023)
  • Social Media and Defamation Law
  • Issue 93: Sep 2023
  • eBrief Ready
  • Sherrin Partners
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  • Put Paper in the Past
  • Bar Flies Scoop the QLS Netball Pool
  • Gremlins, Borgs, and Judicial Impartiality in Multi-Member Courts
  • The Legacy of Sir Harry Gibbs on the Jurisprudence of Purely Economic Loss
  • Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Mediation: Partners in Dispute Resolution
  • Qld Law Reform Commission – a New Look
  • A Way to Win-Win Negotiation
  • Issue 92: Jun 2023
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  • Some Important Changes in the New Property Law Bill
  • Class Actions 101
  • The QCA and the Law as to Overturning an Unreasonable Verdict
  • Not Bound by the Rules of Evidence
  • Family Law – Same but Different
  • When Ministerial Decisions Must Be Made Personally
  • Insolvency – ‘Peak Indebtedness’
  • Issue 91: Mar 2023
  • LexisNexis
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  • Winners are Grinners; Well Almost!
  • Bar v UQ Students Netball Match – 5 March 2023
  • Wigs and Gowns
  • CIA 1944 Tips for Organisational Sabotage – Sound Familiar in Modern Mores?
  • Family Court Judge Writes to Children Concerning Custody Decision – “I have told your parents to stop the crap”
  • Magic Circle Firm Rolls Out 'Gamechanger' ChatGPT-Type Platform
  • Privacy – Prospective Statutory Right of Action and Statutory Tort
  • Issue 90: Dec 2022
  • Morgans
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  • True to the Land: A History of Food in Australia
  • Podcast Review: What Makes a Good Mediator?
  • Podcast Review: Barristers in the New Normal
  • Darwin Spitfires Anniversary Edition: The Real Battle for Australia
  • Speaking Notes for Executing Justice
  • Zines and Stellios’s The High Court and the Constitution (7th ed)
  • The History Thieves
  • Issue 89: September 2022
  • Everyone Is In Italy
  • Conditional leave to replead
  • Queenslander! Townsville CPD Enthralls
  • AAT ABA Legal Assistance Referral Scheme
  • He Claimed Mucho
  • Language... The Chatham House Rule
  • You Will Wear That Pleading, Me Lad!
  • Should ties remain barristers’ required dress in court? 
  • Support For Your Pro Bono Work
  • Opening Arguments
  • Issue 88 - June 2022
  • French Quarter Chambers
  • The Chronicle of a Young Lawyer: A legal journey in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea
  • Liar Liar - Podcast
  • 10 minutes with ... Andrew Philp QC
  • Bar Practice Courses
  • Direction permitting evidence by videolink (pandemic orders)
  • Personalia ... Law Students, August 1956
  • The Brisbane River Flood litigation falls - CLA s 36 rises
  • The Art of Written Submissions
  • A bit of a chuckle ... Grandad's Inquest
  • Issue 87
  • Morgans
  • From the Editor
  • Flight From Paradise
  • City on Fire
  • Case Note: Reflections on the recent High Court Decision in Love Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 3: The Constitution, Indigenous Rights and Immigration Law
  • Abandoning Non Delegable Duty of Care
  • Freyberg: A Life's Journey
  • Going Dark - The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
  • The Second Annual Bench vs. Bar Cricket Match
  • Love v the Commonwealth and Constitutional Recognition; is Australia getting close?
  • Issue 86: August 2020
  • Vincents
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  • Case Note: AED v Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages [2019] QSC 287 — Discharging adoption in “exceptional circumstances” under section 219(1)(c) of the Adoption Act 2009
  • COVID-19 Updates
  • From the President
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  • Supreme Court Library Queensland — Answering Frequently Asked Questions
  • BAQ Indigenous Law Student Program strikes Advocacy Flame for Wyatt
  • Retirement of His Honour Chief Judge Kerry O’Brien
  • The Legal Career of John Griffin QC
  • Issue 85: Mar 2020
  • CPD Seminar: Ethics - Thinking with your brain and with your body: The neurobiology of decision making and implications for mental health and well-being
  • 2019 Employment and Industrial Relations Conference
  • From the Courts — Practice Directions
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  • The Ouija Board Jurors: Mystery, Mischief and Misery in the Jury System
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