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The Industrial Relations Act 2016 (IR Act) commenced on 1 March 2017. Similar to the now repealed Industrial Relations Act 1999, the IR Act limits the circumstances where a party may be represented by a lawyer in proceedings before the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (the QIRC).

It is possible that out of court settlements may involve a taxable supply for which GST is payable.

The township of Timber Creek, half-way between Katherine and Kununarra in the Northern Territory, with a population of fewer than 300 people, has recently been the subject of the undivided attention of the Full Court of the High Court in a landmark native title case.

The recent Court of Appeal decision of Aurizon Operations Limited and State of Queensland v Michael Vincent Baker Superannuation Pty Ltd CA3654/17 is a timely reminder for departments to consider whether their infrastructure is causing a nuisance to adjoining land, particularly where the removal of that infrastructure would not compromise the use of the State’s land.

In the recent decision of Re Cresswell [2018] QSC 142, her Honour Justice Brown delivered the first Queensland judgment to consider the court’s jurisdiction to order a person’s entitlement to possess and use spermatozoa (sperm) removed from a deceased person.