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Sexual abuse risk assessment in family law

Sexual abuse risk assessment in family law Fyfe & Bartell Sexual abuse risk assessment in family law − Where father found not guilty of sexual…
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Family law and bankruptcy

Family law and bankruptcy Legal terms Bankrupt – (see Section 5 of the Bankruptcy Act 1966) – a person: against whose estate a sequestration…
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Conduct of Father causes costs order

Conduct of Father causes costs order Burnham & Mullane CONTENTIONS Contentions of the mother In respect to s 117(2A)(a), the mother submitted that while…
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Costs not allowed despite success

Costs not allowed despite success Hong & Cao (No 2) REASONS FOR JUDGMENT This is an Application for costs arising out of an interlocutory…
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Childhood gender change

Childhood Gender Change Re: Tony REASONS FOR JUDGMENT This matter is brought before the Court on an application by the Mother and the Father,…
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Injury defined for Workers Comp

Injury defined for Workers Comp Comcare v Martin FRENCH CJ, BELL, GAGELER, KEANE AND NETTLE JJ. This appeal concerns the causal connection required to…
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Brisbane Family Law today

Brisbane Family Law Freedom Law serving the Brisbane community: “Being in a situation where you need legal representation is stressful enough without feeling like your…
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Maternal grandmother’s application

Maternal grandmother’s application Hurst & Gersten WITH WHOM SHOULD THE CHILD LIVE This is the nub of the maternal grandmother’s application. She says that…
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Hummingbird Fable

Hummingbird fable – Human Rights Month Why the hummingbird? The Hummingbird Fable comes to the Commission from Nobel Peace Laureate, Wangari Maathai who would…
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Human Rights Month workplaces focus

Human Rights Month workplaces focus The 2016 Human Rights Month campaign of the Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland will run from 10 November until International Human…
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Draft Search Warrant Guidelines

Draft Search Warrant Guidelines between Queensland Law Society and Queensland Police Service 1. Application for a Search Warrant on a Solicitor’s Premises 1.1 The…
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Risk assessment same sex relationship

Risk assessment same sex relationship Hachey & Ward The background of this dispute comes from a relationship between Ms Hachey and Ms Ward, being…
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Mother’s resistance to Father’s time

Mother’s resistance to Father’s time Green & Townsend SHORT HISTORY OF CURRENT PROCEEDINGS On 19 August 2013, while B was in Western Australia, the…
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Vexatious proceedings and costs orders

Vexatious proceedings and costs orders Aiden & Grant This matter comes before me as the mother’s application filed on 30 August 2016 to review…
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Sunshine Coast Family Law

Sunshine Coast Family Law Freedom Law: “Being in a situation where you need legal representation is stressful enough without feeling like your legal representation…
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Facebook service approved

Facebook service approved Maguire & Klein Summary – Effecting Service – Where the mother has not attended Court, filed documents or participated – Where the…
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New Zealand relocation

New Zealand relocation Merritt & Watson The benefit to the child of having a meaningful relationship with both parents The term ‘meaningful’ is not…
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Risk of sexual abuse

Risk of sexual abuse Leaton & Tuppahige Summary – where the parties are in dispute as to the parenting arrangements of the children – where…
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Stay of orders

Stay of orders Ulster & Viney By an Application in an Appeal filed on 2 September 2016, Mr Ulster (“the father”) seeks a stay…
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Expedition of leave to appeal

Expedition of leave to appeal Tullo & Tullo Ms Tullo (“the wife”) and Mr Tullo (“the husband”) are engaged in property settlement proceedings undertaken…
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Hero Judges and social justice

Hero Judges and social justice Paxton & Paxton Impermissible deviations from the holding in “Stanford” Mr Hall placed reliance upon the decision of Federal…
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Change of name

Change of name CS v SMR Background [1] This is an application whereby the applicant mother seeks an order of the court that the…
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Secret to a happy life

Secret to a happy life A personal development guru who reckons she has cracked the formula to a happy life, has identified 15 things…
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Use of emails to be menacing, harassing or offensive

Use of emails to be menacing, harassing or offensive R v Silber In September and October 2013 a construction authority was constructing the light…

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