Our litigation practice is diverse and growing.  We’re either preparing for proceedings or in Court daily for all sorts of reasons such as:

• Judicial reviews and Commissions of Inquiry
• Debt, including rates, recovery
• Prosecutions and Enforcement
• Development and Planning Disputes
• Industrial Relations
• Defamation
• Public liability and professional negligence claims
• Life insurance and TPD claims
• Building and construction disputes
• Human rights and anti-discrimination disputes.

We’re professional but personable. We’re expert but amicable.  We care about our clients and our clients know this.  We’re here to help and our clients know this too.

We’re proud of the management strategies we’ve developed and assiduously apply to ensure maximum satisfaction for our clients.

For instance, our Executive Partner, Tim Fynes-Clinton is the first point of contact for all new matters (unless you’re an existing client who already has a relationship with another of our staff) and Tim is always available to discuss the status of any continuing matter with all of our clients. But all our staff are “on call” to our clients.

The location of our office at Quay Central on Brisbane’s North Quay is by design.  We’re placed within a few minutes’ walk from the Supreme, District, Planning & Environment and Magistrates Courts and just a one-minute stroll from the Federal and High Courts.  And most of the leading Counsel and Senior Counsel in Queensland have their chambers in either our building, the adjoining Inns of Court or nearby Santos Place.  All this means is that, in litigation matters, we’re perfectly placed for conferences with counsel, even urgent, short-notice ones, and court appearances and hearings.

We may be Brisbane-based but we travel – all the time and all over Queensland.  Or, if our clients don’t need us for face-to-face, on-site meetings, we’ll be there virtually via Zoom, Skype, Teams or whatever platform suits the situation.

• In 2021 we successfully acted for the Gold Coast City Council in Island Resorts (Apartments) Pty Ltd v Gold Coast City Council in an appeal challenging the Council’s rating decision.
• In 2021 we successfully acted for Logan City Council in the QIRC in Kelsey v Logan City Council & Ors, with the Council cleared of unlawfully dismissing its former CEO. 
• In 2024 we obtained judgment for a former employee of a local government peak body, who had been subjected to online defamation in a series of 40 publications on social media, with the Court granting a permanent injunction against one of the publishers, and awarding substantial damages, together with costs, against both defendants (Hallam v O’Connor and Pyne).