Disciplinary and other relevant regulatory decisions
We include links on this page to every published decision of Queensland courts and disciplinary bodies in relation to discipline applications made by the Commissioner since the Legal Profession Act 2007 (the Act) commenced on 1 July 2004 and selected other decisions of the courts that are relevant to the professional obligations of Australian legal practitioners.
The Court of Appeal and the Legal Practice Tribunal publish their disciplinary and other regulatory decisions on the Queensland Courts website and we reproduce those decisions here exactly as they are published there.
The Act requires the Commissioner to provide administrative support to the Legal Practice Committee (s. 625), and we publish the Committee’s decisions here at its request.
You can search the decisions we have collated here in the same way you can search judgments on the Queensland Courts website, simply by typing in key words (e.g. a name, or key words like 'gross overcharging', 'undertakings' or 'dishonesty').
Go straight to the Disciplinary decisions of the Court of Appeal (2004- )
Go straight to the Decisions of the Legal Practice Tribunal (2004-2009)
Go straight to the Decisions of the Legal Practice Committee (2004-)
Go straight to Selected other decisions of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court (2004- )
Disciplinary decisions of the Court of Appeal (2004- )
- LSC v Bradshaw [2009] QCA 126
- LSC v Voll [2008] QCA 293
- LSC v Madden (No 2) [2008] QCA 301
- LSC v Madden (No 1) [2008] QCA 052
- LSC v Baker (No 2) [2006] QCA 145
- LSC v Baker (No 1) [2005] QCA 482
Decisions of the Legal Practice Tribunal (2004-2009)
Decisions of the Legal Practice Committee (2004- )
- This listing is under construction
Selected other decisions of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court (2004- )
- LSC v Dempsey [2008] QCA 122
- LSC v Dempsey [2007] QSC 270
These two decisions deal with the proper construction of the so-called 50/50 rule which caps a lawyer's fees in speculative personal injuries matters at half the judgement or settlement amount after deducting outlays and refunds.