Market Power, Unfair Advantage and Data Sharing – Claims Farming Raises Bigger Questions

Claim farming allegations give rise to bigger questions By: Jerome Doraisamy – LawyersWeekly (https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/biglaw/23526-claim-farming-allegations-give-rise-to-bigger-questions) There are always significant concerns across the profession about practices such as claim farming and data sharing, according to Solicitors principal and Queensland Law Society immediate past president Christine Smyth. But perspective needs to shift, she said, to a focus on the bigger picture, and not just the […]

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Magic money – estate litigation and cost orders

Magic money – estate litigation and cost orders

“But don’t you just take your costs out of the estate?” demands the righteous caller, scoping for a solicitor to take on their estate litigation. There is a belief amongst lay people and some lawyers, albeit mistaken, that a deceased estate bears the burden of the costs of litigation. This belief likely finds its origins in the seminal family provision decision of […]

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