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Collective Family Law Group Blog
The Family Violence Cross-Examination Ban: What It Means for Your Gold Coast Hearing
If you are preparing for a family law hearing against a former partner who has been violent or controlling, one question usually comes first: will they be allowed to question…
HEIRS & SUCCESSES
The Wife Who Never Existed: Romance Fraud, a Forged Marriage and an Unusual Inheritance Dispute
Can someone who never existed inherit under a Will? In the Will of Clifford Stanley Perrin [2026] QSC 247 examines the consequences of online romance fraud and a testamentary gift…
Australian Emergency Law
Queensland paramedic reprimanded but identity protected
By M. Eburn
A Queensland paramedic has been reprimanded over several instances of inappropriate patient care – Paramedicine Board of Australia v BML [2026] QCAT 417. One reason for the light penalty is once…
Australian Emergency Law
Reviewing The Viewer (Queensland)
By M. Eburn
I have previously written on paramedics seeking to access patient records via The Viewer for the purpose of clinical review, in anticipation of arrival on scene and for training students…
Family and Fertility Australia Blog
Egg Freezing in Prison: The High Court’s Decision in Smith
By Stephen Page
Does a prison sentence also mean losing the opportunity to become a parent after release? That question sits at the heart of Smith v Chief Executive, Queensland Corrective Services, a…
Barnold Law
IR
The recommendations in the Qld Industrial Relations and Workers’ Compensation scheme review areQueensland Employment Standards1 Consideration of National Employment Standards Inquiry outcomes That outcomes of the federal inquiry into the…
Bill Madden's Blog
High Court: Extraction and freezing of a prisoner’s eggs.
By Bill Madden
Smith v Chief Executive, Queensland Corrective Services [2026] HCA 37 (Link to AUSTLII) COURT SUMMARY Today, the High Court allowed an appeal from the Court of Appeal of the Supreme…
Family and Fertility Australia Blog
Donor limits Queensland: lesbian couples now one family
By Stephen Page
A lesbian couple using the same sperm donor should not become two families simply because both women want to carry a child. That is the straightforward principle behind Queensland Health’s…
SCC Blog
Does eligibility for coal mining long service leave depend on the employer’s business or the employee’s work? Australia HC answers in 3:2 ruling
By Arushi
Australia High Court: In a significant ruling on the scope of the coal industry’s portable long service leave scheme, Gageler CJ*, Jagot*, Gordon**, Steward*** and Gleeson***, JJ., by a 3:2…
HEIRS & SUCCESSES
WXW v KZY & Anor [2025] QSC 138: Extrinsic Evidence in Will Interpretation
In Australia, “construing a Will” is the legal process of determining the true meaning and intention of a deceased person’s Will when its language is ambiguous, unclear, or contradictory. When…