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  • Book - 'James'
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  • Book - 'Hooked: Inside the Murky World of Australia’s Gambling Industry'
  • Book - 'Too Soon'
  • Book - 'Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman'
  • Book - 'Is A River Alive?'
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  • Book - 'Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry'
  • Book - 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'
  • Words from the Past
  • Evidence and Truth (2017)
  • The Interaction Between Science and Law - Legal Science or a Science of Law (2016)
  • Women at the Bar: Aspirations and Inspirations (2014)
  • Context and Complexity: Some Reflections by a New Judge (2010)
  • Professional Conduct and Practice
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Profession
  • Victorian Lawyer with Alleged Tax Debt of $2.6 Million Fights to keep Practising Certificate
  • Queensland Courts’ Use of Generative AI Guidelines for Judicial Officers
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guidance for Judicial Office Holders Issued in England and Wales
  • Incompetence and Discourteous Emails Result in Disciplinary Sanction
  • UK Magistrate Sanctioned in Relation to a Political Candidacy Leaflet
  • Lawyer Dealt with for Failing to Provide PC Urine Samples
  • Concerns Over Judges' Safety in England and Wales
  • Northern Territory Lawyer's Name Struck from the Roll for Dishonesty in Admission Application
  • Practice Direction 7 of 2025 - Non-Party Requests to Inspect or Copy Documents Filed in Civil Proceedings
  • Advocacy
  • Verdins’ Sentencing Submissions - Common Challenges
  • How to Plead and Prove a Professional Negligence Claim
  • War on Trusts: Fortifying the Defences
  • Limitation Applied to Transfer of Vicarious Liability
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intellectual Property (IP) fundamentals
  • AI in Court Documents – QLD Guidance & the NSWDC’s Response in Gribble
  • Ten Rules for Giving Good Evidence
  • Electrical ‘Exposure’ not proved by Hearsay Statement Made 2 Days Earlier
  • Practice Directions - Accuracy of References in Submissions
  • Tracing Into Assets which have Increased in Value
  • Inter Alia
  • Congratulations Bar Practice Course 84
  • Are you Cyber Ready?
  • How to Spot a Deepfake Video
  • Mashed Potatoes and Murder: a Deadly Tale from Queensland’s Shadowed Past
  • Gold Coast Chambers
  • How to have Healthier Arguments
  • But the Judge Did Say That … ‘Pirate Code’
  • Language - 'In Specie'
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  • A New Cause of Action for Serious Invasions of Privacy
  • 10 Minutes with...The Honourable Justice Glenn Martin AM
  • Thought for this Issue: ‘…[T]oday’s lawyers are tomorrow’s judges [so require]… independence of thought, strength of character and…moral courage’
  • A Fortunate (Circuit) Life
  • BAQ Guidelines for Cyber Risk Management and for the Use of AI in Legal Practice
  • A New Home for Bail and Dangerous Prisoner Applications
  • Forensic Evidence and the Courts
  • Valuing Lawyers
  • Australian Lawyers and Australian Democracy in 2025
  • Between Tempests: Judgments at the Edge of the Anthropocene
  • Regional Bar
  • Bar on the Goldie
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  • Art - Under a Modern Sun: Art in Queensland 1930s-1950s - QAGOMA
  • Book - The Flower Bed
  • Book - Vaccine Nation
  • Book - Unsettled
  • Book - The Power of Choice
  • Book - The Best Australian Science Writing 2024
  • Book - Would that be Funny?
  • Travelogue - Annecy (French Alps)
  • Book - Journey to Kars: A Modern Traveller in the Ottoman Lands
  • Book - Mrs Death Misses Death
  • Words from the Past
  • A Year in the Life of an Australian Member of the PNG Judiciary (2013)
  • The Ethics of the Advocate (2012)
  • Lawyers Are Important, Aren’t They? (2011)
  • The Role of the Advocate (1981)
  • Professional Conduct and Practice
  • Cyber Security Critical for Small Business
  • SA Barristers’ Chambers Listed on Ransomware Leak Site
  • Should you Delete your Old Social and Email Accounts?
  • Threats to Judges on the Rise
  • Indemnity Costs Ordered in Matrimonial Proceedings Following Material Non-Disclosure
  • Bipartisan Submissions in a Criminal Trial Infected with Hallucinating AI - Twice
  • Solicitor to Pay Costs for Submissions Affected by the Use of AI
  • Appellate Approval of Queensland Barrister being Refused Practising Certificate
  • Use of AI in Litigation Carries Responsibilities
  • Lawyers Ought be Cautious in Legal Social Media Commentary
  • Advocacy
  • Evidence as to 'Usual Practice'
  • Subpoena Lay Witnesses!
  • Knowledge, Belief or Intent: The Difficulties of Particularising a Fraud
  • When is Conduct Unconscionable?
  • Costs Order Against Non-Party Overturned
  • Scope of Non-Party Disclosure: ‘Spear Fishing’ not ‘Drag Netting’!
  • Variation of a Contract
  • Copyright: Crown use Just Became a Little Wider
  • Need for Comprehensive Affidavit in Setting Aside Corporations Act Statutory Demand
  • Damages for Remedial Expenditure Actionable by Non-Owner Developer Against Negligent Designer
  • Inter Alia
  • How Resilient Are You? 4-Question Test and Proven Strategies
  • The Independent Bar as a Feudal Guild
  • Your Guide to Avoiding the 3pm Slump at Work
  • Expressions of Interest to Write in 'Queensland Civil Practice'
  • Fixed vs Variable Rate?
  • Language - Dyed-in-the-wool
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  • How Brawn v The King and MDP v The King Changed the Law on the Common Form Appeal Provisions
  • 10 Minutes with…Simon Couper KC
  • Thought for this Issue: The Performance Pressure of Being a Barrister…Look After Yourself in How You Manage that...Pressure
  • Featured Artist Profile: William Robinson
  • The Closing Address in a Jury Trial
  • Obligations of New Barristers…and the Other Side of Life
  • Swearing-In Ceremony for Justice Doyle and Justice Johnstone
  • Hearsay Celebrates 100 Issues
  • VALE: Stephen William Zillman 1953-2025
  • The AML/CTF Legislation: Using Red Tape to Fight Crime
  • Issue 100: June 2025
  • Trial Advocacy: Planning and Environment Court
  • FCAFC: How to Draw and Conduct an Appeal
  • Federal Court - Revisiting the Requirements of Pleadings 
  • No Tortious Duty Owed by Defendant in Respect of 1960’s Report of Abuse of Another Child
  • Proving an Oral Agreement
  • When to Assess Damages for Breach of Contract
  • Balancing Restraint and Client Choice: Injunctive Relief Refused in Perpetual v Maglis
  • Entitlement of Trust Beneficiary to Inspect Trust Documents and Receive Trust Information
  • Liability of International Air Carriers
  • Significant Changes have been Recommended to Modernise Wills Law in England and Wales
  • Issue 99: March 2025
  • Fraud! What Does it Mean in Disability Insurance?
  • Appeals: Interlocutory v Final Decisions and Jurisdictional Error
  • Case Highlight: Health Ombudsman v du Toit [2024] QCA 235
  • A Note on Disclaimers in Negligence Law
  • Canadian Judges give Contract the Thumbs Up
  • Successor Trustee Owes No Fiduciary Obligation to Former Trustee
  • 'Courts … can only act on the law as it is, and have no right to … speculate upon alterations in the law that may be made …'
  • Valuable Bailed Goods Not 'White Elephants' in Re-supply Settlement Deed
  • No Past Consideration Because Loan Advance Part of a Single Transaction
  • Utility of – and what Constitutes Detriment for – a Common Intention Constructive Trust
  • Issue 98: December 2024
  • Get BarBooks for Only $1 Until the End of 2024
  • eBrief Ready
  • Sherrin Partners
  • NSW PD Prohibiting Gen AI Use in Evidence and Judgment Drafting
  • Public and Briefing Profession Interest Knowing of Disciplinary Charge against Barrister
  • The Barrister’s Role in Moving Uncontested Admissions to Legal Practice
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • The 'Moral Panic' Over Psychological Wellbeing in the Legal Profession - A Personal or Political Ethical Response?
  • Magistrate who Provided Reference for Defendant given Formal Advice for Misconduct
  • Drafting Witness Affidavits as to Contested Conversation Content
  • Issue 97: September 2024
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  • LexisNexis
  • ACL Unconscionability and Accessorial Liability
  • Estoppel by Encouragement – Promise Certainty, Reliance, Detriment and Unconscionability
  • The Fruits of an Unlawful Demand (Part 2)
  • Non-Publication Orders in Abuse Matters
  • The Courts and Arbitration
  • More on Private Nuisance from the UK Supreme Court
  • An Expert Witness’s Proper Approach in Testimony
  • Issue 96: June 2024
  • LexisNexis
  • Forvis Mazars
  • Legal Home Loans
  • 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
  • Issue 95: March 2024
  • Legal Home Loans
  • Mazars
  • Morgans Tynan Partners
  • 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
  • Issue 94: Dec 2023
  • Book - Root & Branch
  • Book - First: Sandra Day O’Connor
  • LexisNexis
  • Sherrin Partners
  • eBrief Ready
  • Welcome to the Bar!
  • Landmark Legislation Introduced to Criminalise Coercive Control
  • Welcome to the Supreme Court Library's New Website
  • Sunshine Coast Bar Conference 2023
  • Trials much like ‘Cricket Matches’
  • Issue 93: Sep 2023
  • eBrief Ready
  • Sherrin Partners
  • LexisNexis
  • 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
  • LexisNexis
  • Mazars
  • Morgans
  • 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
  • Morgans
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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
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