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The call came in the early hours. Martin Cowley heard the landlord repeat the news. “17 Burlington Street is in flames”. (more…)

When Michael Lee and Majed Hawatt signed up as “sophisticated investors” for  Westpac’s GPS “capital protected” borrowed funds investment in June (more…)

Bundaberg farmers Ray and Keryn Fulcher confronted catastrophe as their brand new motor home burst into flames (more…)

A South Australian tourist has failed to cast “an aura of prostitution and drug use” over a Spring Hill apartment complex where her hand was impaled on a discarded hypodermic syringe. (more…)

More exotic than a Nigerian email scam - but equally extravagant - this story recounted over five days in Brisbane’s supreme court last month, is a magnificent tale of how a top-drawer seller and (more…)

In a decision that will be intently studied by the finance industry and borrowers alike, the supreme court today refused to decree that the differential between base and default interest rates are a de facto illegal “penalty” but (more…)

No step taken in his client’s contract claim for more than four and a half years proved fatal in an application made by a Toowoomba solicitor for leave to proceed under UCPR rule 389. (more…)

A further chapter of the ‘Tales of Tennyson Reach’ was published in December, when the Supreme Court ruled on yet another buyer’s termination of an off-the-plan contract signed at the height of the real estate market in June 2007. (more…)

Two attempts by buyers to crash their 2007 off-the-plan apartment purchases at Mirvac’s Tennyson Reach development were dashed (more…)

Courts in Queensland and New South Wales have recently ruled on the liability of personal trainers for injuries sustained by their clients.

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