Day: 11 February 2020

A Lease Dispute case note: Fu Manchu Dining Pty Ltd V SP (QLD) Pty Ltd [2019] QCAT 394 The Facts Fu Manchu Dining Pty Ltd (applicant) entered into a lease on 1 November 2015 with SP (QLD) Pty Ltd (respondent) to operate a restaurant from premises owned by the respondent. The applicant claimed: Rental offset … Read more

Social media provides a widely accessible platform for information to spread. In this digital age, it has revolutionised the manner and speed in which information is acquired, communicated and dispersed. A quick tweet can significantly influence an audience. In 2015, a tweet about buying shares on Twitter saw Twitter’s share price increase by 5 per … Read more

Case: Corowa v Winner & Anor [2019] QDC 135 Background On the 14 September 2009 Brenton Winner deliberately drove his vehicle onto the footpath and over the right foot of Isaiah Corowa in order to protect his fiancée and grandmother from being physically and verbally attacked. Corowa was taken to hospital and suffered four separate … Read more