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  • Art - Under a Modern Sun: Art in Queensland 1930s-1950s - QAGOMA
  • Book - The Flower Bed
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  • Book - The Best Australian Science Writing 2024
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Book - The Kowloon Kid: A Hong Kong Childhood
  • Book - Annotated Civil Liability Legislation Queensland 6th Edition (2025)
  • Book - Kataraina
  • Book - Travelling to Tomorrow: The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America
  • Book - Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia’s AIDS Crisis
  • Book - The Long Shadow: Australia’s Vietnam Veterans since the War
  • Book - The Law of Affidavits, Second Edition
  • Travelogue - RHS Chelsea Flower Show (UK)
  • Exhibition - ‘Bluey’s World’
  • Music - Bon Iver ‘From’ (2025)
  • Words from the Past
  • Judging Truth from Memory (2023)
  • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - the Bar as ‘Quality Controller’ (2012)
  • Making and Responding to Objections to Evidence - Lay Testimony Evidence (2009)
  • The Judicial Method: Essentials and Inessentials (2009)
  • Aspects of Cross-Examination on Documents (2006)
  • Professional Conduct and Practice
  • Junior Lawyer Pivot Points
  • Referral made after ‘Fake’ Cases Discovered in Barrister’s Submissions
  • Barristers Posting Homophobic Notices in Lifts of Chambers’ Building Found Guilty of Professional Misconduct
  • Solemnity of Solicitor’s Undertaking
  • Unrepresented Litigant Gains Re-trial for Want of Assistance by Judge in Trial Conduct
  • Counsel Sanctioned for Intimidatory Conduct to Opposing Client and Misrepresenting His Status
  • Harnessing Generative AI in 2025 with LexisNexis
  • Advocates’ Immunity Protects Counsel from Alleged Negligence in Failing to Elicit Obtainable Evidence
  • Allegations Against Counsel Dismissed as Abuse of Process by SA Supreme Court
  • Removal of Lawyer from Roll of Practitioners - Primary and Shifting Onuses
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  • A Lesson from History: A Litigation Strategy Based on a Single Battle
  • Knowledge, Belief or Intent: The Difficulties of Particularising a Fraud
  • Federal Court - Revisiting the Requirements of Pleadings 
  • Significant Changes have been Recommended to Modernise Wills Law in England and Wales
  • No Tortious Duty Owed by Defendant in Respect of 1960’s Report of Abuse of Another Child
  • Entitlement of Trust Beneficiary to Inspect Trust Documents and Receive Trust Information
  • When to Assess Damages for Breach of Contract
  • Liability of International Air Carriers
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  • Congratulations Bar Practice Course 83
  • Ceremonial Sitting of the Full Court to Welcome the Honourable Justice Amelia Wheatley
  • Ceremonial Sitting of the Full Court to Welcome the Honourable Justice Erin Longbottom
  • No Place to Stay: Climate Displacement and the Limits of Law
  • The Jurisprudential Labours of Hercules
  • The Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
  • Travels in Sindh – A Glimpse into the Legal System of Pakistan, Karachi, and the Vibe
  • UKSC Finds ‘Woman’ in ‘Equality’ Statute Means ‘Biological Woman’
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  • Language - Quixotic
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  • The Communist Party Case, the Role of the Advocate and the Rule of Law
  • 10 Minutes with…The Honourable Hugh Fraser KC
  • Thought for this Issue: Counsel brings their Learning, Ability, Character and Firmness of Mind to the Conduct of Causes
  • Featured Artist Profile: Ralph Wilson
  • Ethics as Advocacy
  • Commercial Litigation: Drawing upon History to Embrace the Future
  • A Sunset Soirée for the Brain in Honour of Justice Peter Hilton
  • Some Aspects of Judicial Restraint in Civil Appeals
  • After Mallonland: Testing for a Duty of Care Against Purely Economic Loss
  • What is Missing from Modern Legal Education?
  • Issue 99: March 2025
  • From the President
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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
  • Issue 98: December 2024
  • From the President
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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
  • 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
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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
  • LexisNexis
  • Mazars
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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
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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)
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