Practice Areas
Administrative Law and Government Services
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gathering appropriate evidence and reports to support applications to various Commonwealth, State and Local government bodies and agencies for authorisation, permits or licences granted under relevant Commonwealth or State legislation or local by-laws;
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general advice as to potential administrative law consequences of government decisions and actions made in respect to applications and generally;
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advice as to your rights to seek either an internal, external or judicial review of a government decision or action;
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application of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 (Cth); the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (Cth); the Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth); the Judicial Review Act 1991 (Qld) to government decisions and actions;
- inquiries and hearings before disciplinary tribunals
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appeals, applications for review and statutory order of review of a decision or action before courts or tribunals;
- special commissions of inquiry;
- Freedom of Information;
- privacy.
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Banking and Finance
- Financing and securities
- Securities enforcement
- Debt collecting
- Problem account monitoring
- Exercise of powers of sale
- Advice on tax and other competing priority claims
Commercial Property
- Acquisitions and sales
- Leasing - advice, documentation and disputes
- General commercial advice and litigation
- Joint venture - due diligence, advice, documentation and disputes
- Rent review disputes
- Valuation negligence claim
Construction Law
- Contract negotiation, preparation and advice
- Arbitration
- Mediation and ADR
- Litigation
Corporate Law
- Corporate and commercial advice
- Directors’ liabilities and obligations
- ASX compliance
- Strategic and business advice
- Shareholder disputes
- Liquidations, Administrations, Receiverships
- Mergers and acquisition - due diligence, advice, documentation
- Insolvency advice and litigation
Dispute Resolution
- Litigation - all superior courts
- Strategy reviews
- Mediation - Court and Queensland Law Society approved mediator service
- Registered Supreme Court Case Appraisal
Fund Raising
- Prospectuses
- Offer Information Statements
- Disclosure Documents
- Floats and IPO's
Intellectual Property
- Copyright, patent and designs advice and litigation
- The law of confidentiality
- Protection of business reputation (names, goodwill etc)
Professional Discipline and Administrative Law
- Representing and advising the Queensland Law Society Inc in the drafting
and presentation
of misconduct charges against solicitors. - Representing and advising solicitors against whom such charges had been brought.
- Representing and advising the following classes of professionals against
whom disciplinary charges
had been brought by their control body:
- accountants
- financial advisers
- medical practitioners
- pharmacists and property professionals. - Appearances before the relevant statutory and quasi-judicial tribunals in these cases
Professional Indemnity and Liability
(Plaintiff and Defendant work)
- Lawyers
- Accountants
- Architects
- Engineers
- Valuers
Tax Law
- Advice
- Tax audit assistance and advice
- Objections and appeals
- Debt restructuring and negotiations
- Indirect taxes advice, objections and appeals
Trade Practices Law
- Unfair competition claims
- Misleading or deceptive conduct claims
- Products liability
- Consumer claims
- Business conduct and anti-competition claims, predatory pricing, resale price maintenance, secondary boycotts
