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A number of retailers have moved away from traditional shops to online retailing.  This move has accelerated due to COVID-19 issues, however it has been a trend for a number of years and shows no sign of reversing. We have recently come across this situation where an online retailer intended to take premises in a […]

QBM Lawyers are happy to announce that their Partner, Justin Mathews, has just been registered as a qualified Adjudicator with the Queensland Building & Construction Commission.  As well as being registered in Queensland, Justin is also a registered Adjudicator in the Northern Territory. The role of adjudicator in building disputes is an important one, allowing […]

Like most other states and territories across Australia, Queensland introduced a temporary regulation, namely the Justice Legislation (COVID-19 Emergency Response – Wills and Enduring Documents) Regulation 2020 in early May 2020. Later that month, the Queensland government introduced the Justice Legislation (COVID-19 Emergency Response – Documents and Oaths Regulation 2020 (Qld)) (the Regulation), which was […]

Legislation amending the Criminal Code to make wage theft a crime has been introduced to Queensland parliament. At the time of making this post it has not yet passed. Interestingly – and inconsistently with Victorian wage theft legislation – there is no mention of directors’ liability for wage theft as a result of which there […]