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™ ™ November- December 2013 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 8 Human rights Amnesty International in Brisbane Innovators The young lawyers starting their own firms MERGEDHemming+Hart joins Colin Biggers & Paisley 1 Brisbane Legal developing talent and success Published by Business News Publications Pty Ltd. Contents ABN: 78 095 179 678 GPO Box 2087, Brisbane QLD. 4001 Phone: 07 3608 2069, Fax: (07) 5575 9544 Managing Editor Camilla Jansen 4 [email protected] Journalists: Keeping kids out of Colin Gilmore custody [email protected] James Perkins [email protected] 07 3608 2069 Karen Rickert Career Opportunities [email protected] Laura Daquino Construction Insurance | Professional Indemnity | Public Liability [email protected] 7 5 Yrs to SA | Construction Litigation 2-4 Yrs | Workers Comp and Public Liability With a genuine commitment to grow and develop this practice, you will act Servicing both major insurance companies and significant self-insurer Advertising: for some of Australia’s major blue chip companies across the mining, clients this is an exceptional opportunity to join one of Queensland’s leading HopgoodGanim Kim Draper engineering and property sectors. This is a brilliant opportunity to make a defendant teams. Great team culture. moves into China [email protected] mark and progress within one of the country’s most innovative law firms. 4 Yrs to SA | General Insurance Janine Maggs Senior Lawyer to SA | Construction – Back-end Recognised as a leading employer, this highly awarded firm is keen to [email protected] Be part of a team that is known as one of the best construction practices in recruit an experienced insurance lawyer to join this growing team. Be part the Asia Pac region. You will work with a terrific group of partners who have of its success and be rewarded well above market. 07 3608 2068 cultivated a dynamic and unique team culture. Clear path for progression. 3-5 Yrs | Professional Indemnity 5 Yrs to Senior Associate – Front-end construction Complex professional indemnity combined with bespoke corporate Design: Working on some of Queensland’s most significant infrastructure projects litigation will be the norm when you join this team of specialist litigators. Albrecht Gatchalian this is a very rare opportunity to join this tight knit team. Both the scope of Progression is only limited by your ambition and skill. [email protected] 9 work and the chance to launch your career via the firms’ international Subscriptions: secondments make this role one of the most exciting available right now. Property | Infrastructure | Corporate [email protected] Agnes McWhinney 5 Yrs to Senior Associate | International firm | Property and infrastructure award winner Commercial Litigation Join a strong and stable team that rarely has a need to recruit. We welcome feedback from readers: Senior Lawyer | Commercial Disputes Great opportunity for a commercial property lawyer to broaden their [email protected] Whether you have a portable client base or a proven track record in expertise in the infrastructure projects area and work with a leading team. 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Attorney-General and Minster for Justice Jarrod Bleijie resumed the use of the title in Queensland in December 2012 after it was removed by the Labor Government in 1994. The following Queen’s Counsel appointments The Medical Board of Australia and the Australian were approved by the Governor General on Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) are November 14: taking a stance against Queensland’s District Court’s Helen Patricia Bowskill November 21 decision on the Dr Jayant Patel case Thomas Joseph Bradley Catherine Elena Carew Peter Alan Hastie SOON after Judge Terry Martin announced From this, disciplinary action is to Patel would walk free, on a two-year recommence in the Queensland Civil and David Robert Kent wholly suspended jail sentence for fraud, Administrative Tribunal (QCAT), where the Mark David Martin the Board and the AHPRA reactivated case against Patel will be prosecuted by Timothy Matthews disciplinary action against Patel to “ensure the Board. Damien Peter O'Brien the ongoing protection of the public”. The Board intends to ensure a Adam Michael Pomerenke They have served him with a referral continuation of denying Patel registration as Mark Louis Robertson notice on the grounds of: supplying false a medical practitioner in Australia, an order and misleading information in application which took effect in April 2005. Soraya Mary Ryan for registration on two occasions, providing Rebecca Mary Treston below standard clinical patient care, and QCAT is yet to set a date for the hearing, Manuel Michael Varitimos unsatisfactory professional conduct under but it is expected to be in the near future. relevant law. consecutive time. … THEN ADVERTISE Janet Wright, Jann Taylor, April Chrzanowski, Professor Heather Douglas, Dr Stephen Stathis, LOOKING FOR FOR FREE WITH THE Paul Barclay (Radio National’s Big Ideas program), Scott McDougall (Director, Caxton Legal Centre) STANDOUT COLLEGE OF LAW Need a law graduate, ORGANISERS of a University of Queensland needed evidence to influence this debate in the high cost of incarceration in relation to alternative Law School youth justice forum hope its hope of persuading lawmakers to reconsider rehabilitation programs. work experience student broadcast on the ABC will help prompt their dramatic rollback of accepted legal principle COLLEAGUES?... Dr Stathis says the vast majority of young or recently admitted community debate over government proposals in deciding these matters. people in youth detention centres have either a practitioner? to impose harsher sentencing on young “Detention is a last resort when children are history of physical or sexual abuse, have suffered offenders. The College’s free online jobs sentenced in all Australian states and territories, parental neglect or intergenerational trauma, The forum, co-hosted by the Caxton Legal (and) it should stay that way.” or are exposed to a toxic peer group or family noticeboard can get your job Centre and Griffith University, was covered More than 150 people attended the Youth environment.