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  • Book - Beauty and the Law
  • Art - Yayoi Kusama Exhibition - National Gallery of Victoria (until 21 April)
  • Film - 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' A Rock Syzygy (2025)
  • Book - Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia’s Future
  • Book - The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself
  • Book - Beyond the Broken Years: Australian Military History in 1000 Books
  • Book - Open Water
  • Song – Blues Brothers ‘Everybody Needs Somebody to Love/Sweet Home Chicago’ (1980)
  • Art - Robert Brownhall Exhibition - Philip Bacon Galleries (until 29 March)
  • Book - Best Wishes
  • Words from the Past
  • How to Lose a Case (2020)
  • Cross-Examination Basics (2016)
  • Cross-Examination on Documents (1983)
  • Professional Conduct and Practice
  • Barrister Found Liable for $1.7m in Wasted Costs
  • Qld A-G Appoints Two QSC Reserve Judges
  • Counsel for the Parties Ordered to Lunch
  • Judges of all Australian Courts – Superior and Inferior – Enjoy Judicial Immunity in Purported Exercise of Judicial Function
  • Master of Rolls Addresses UK Position on Barrister Use of GenAI
  • NSW GEN AI Practice Direction Amended
  • Deposing a False Affidavit or Giving False Evidence Mandates Barrister being Struck Off
  • Graduate Lawyer Fails in Fair Work Act Bullying Claim
  • How ‘Lawyer Brain’ Impacted this Barrister’s Mental Health
  • Lawyer’s Lack of Candour with Regulator Warranted Striking Off
  • Advocacy
  • 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
  • Inter Alia
  • Defending Against Dementia: Diet, Exercise and Mental Stimulation
  • A Celebration and Thanks - Justice in North Queensland
  • Dickens’ Serjeant Buzfuz – Master of the Blustering Diatribe
  • Humour - The Two Ronnies 'Courtroom Quiz'
  • Language – Brain Rot (OUP Word of the Year 2024)
  • Language – Deleterious
  • Language – Formulaic
  • Language – Sophie’s Choice
  • Language – Tendentious and Captious
  • Mintie Alia
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  • Cross-Examination – Planning, Purpose and When to Stop!
  • 10 Minutes with... Amanda O’Brien, Principal Registrar QSC, QDC and QLC
  • Thought for this Issue: The Task of Advocacy is About Making it Simple
  • Featured Artist Profile - Emma Coulter
  • What is an Executive Order?
  • John Jay – First Chief Justice of the United States of America
  • Admissibility of Common Forms of Documentary Evidence
  • VALE: The Honourable Alan George Demack AO 1934-2025
  • VALE: James Geoffrey Crowley RFD KC 1935-2024
  • The State of the Australian Judicature in 2024
  • Regional Bar
  • Celebration of Supreme Court Sesquicentenary in Bowen
  • Reviews and the Arts
  • Theatre - 'And the Gold Medal goes to …'
  • Book - Imagining a Real Australia: The Documentary Style 1950-1980
  • Book - Fear: An Alternative History of the World
  • Book - People Power: How Australian Referendums are Lost and Won
  • Classical Music - Gustavo Dudamel
  • Song – Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga ‘Shallow’ (2018)
  • Book - Plain Language for Lawyers, A Practical Guide to Clear Communication
  • Book - Justice in Tribunals 6th Edition
  • Song – Richard Gere & Others ‘We Both Reached for the Gun’ (2002)
  • Song – Lady Gaga ‘The Joker’ (2024)
  • Words from the Past
  • Written Advocacy (2007)
  • Reciprocal Duties of Bench and Bar (2006)
  • The Architecture of Argument (2004)
  • Notes on Documentary Evidence (2004)
  • Professional Conduct and Practice
  • 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
  • Restraining Lawyers from Acting Due to Conflict
  • Industrial Relations and Swearing in Northern England
  • Citing Non-Existent Cases and Giving Rambling Statements in Court - Judges Blame AI
  • Advocacy
  • Four Recent Tax Cases
  • Vicarious Liability – A 'Tortured History': Bird v DP (a pseudonym)
  • When Things Go Wrong - A Mediator's Perspective
  • The Use and Limits of Statutory Purpose in the Interpretation of Legislation
  • How to Prepare for a Mediation
  • Another Tax Case - Family Largesse as Capital Gift not Assessable Income
  • The Honourable William Gummow AC on the True Character of a ‘Quistclose’ Trust
  • No Presumption of Undue Influence Arises in Probate
  • The Form of Affidavit of Conversations – Some Controversy in New South Wales
  • Repudiation Founded in Misconstruction of a Contract
  • Inter Alia
  • Congratulations Bar Practice Course 82
  • Farewell to Her Honour Judge McGinness
  • The Supreme Court Fifteen Years On: Continuity and Change
  • VALE: The Honourable Thomas Eyre Forrest Hughes AO KC
  • Language – Extant
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  • Language - Mnemonic
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  • 'Sam and Ralph' - The Role and Practice of Counsel in the System of Justice
  • Advocacy in Mediation
  • 10 Minutes with…the Honourable Ian Callinan AC
  • Barrister Cyber Risk
  • VALE: Grant Thomas Britton KC 1946-2024
  • An Interesting Approach to Settlement
  • Navigating the AI Abyss: Ethical Challenges in the Age of GENAI
  • Danny Gore KC: 50 Years at the Queensland Bar
  • Lawyers and Dictators: Ten Lawyers, and Counting
  • Elephant or Mule? The Menagerie of the Law Relating to Economic Loss
  • Issue 97: September 2024
  • From the President
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  • Jury Misconduct - What Exactly Are They Getting Up To?
  • AI and Mediation
  • 10 Minutes with…the Honourable Philip Morrison KC
  • Maintaining your Selfcare During Trial
  • ‘A Diet of the Most Awful Things Humans can do’ – A Criminal Lawyers’ Life
  • Appearing in the High Court: Metal Manufactures Pty Ltd v Morton (2023) 275 CLR 100
  • ‘Goodnight and Good Luck!’ – A Tribute to Retiring Counsel
  • Crypto (& other) Bros – Navigating Storms in the Scammers’ Paradise
  • Issue 96: June 2024
  • From the President
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  • Get Out There!
  • 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
  • Issue 95: March 2024
  • From the President
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mazars
  • 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
  • Vincents
  • Mazars
  • 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
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  • 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
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