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Electronic signing of documents legislated in Queensland

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Queensland Government introduced a number of temporary measures to facilitate the electronic execution of documents. Those measures have now been made permanent.

Could a mass shooting occur in an Australian school?

Schools should undertake a security risk assessment and implement reasonably practicable controls to address the risks of large-scale unpredictable violent incidents occurring at school.

WE'VE STEPPED UP AGAIN! KIDS' CANCER FUNDRAISER RAISES OVER $66K

We've stepped it up again. Kids cancer fundraiser raises over $66,000

Costs Order Made Against Objector to Provisional Liquidator's Remuneration Application

The Supreme Court of Queensland has ordered that an objector to an external administrator's remuneration application pay the administrator's costs of responding to the objections.

Another storey: Queensland Court of Appeal upholds the Queensland's Planning and Environment Court's interpretation of "storey" and affirms a local government's decision to approve a code assessable development application for multiple dwellings

The case of Robertson v Brisbane City Council & Ors [2022] QCA 45 concerned an appeal to the Queensland Court of Appeal (Court of Appeal) in respect of the decision of the Planning and Environment Court of Queensland.