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Bringing Up Baby
When couples are separating, and negotiating who gets what from the joint property pool, pets (most frequently ...
Stool Pigeons & G Men
G men love stoolies. It’s a fact of life.
Over the centuries, the one thing that has most frustrated the work of ...
Big Money Barneys
Big-time prize fighting has always walked hand in hand with big money litigation.
It’s a world of feast and ...
NRL Match Fixing Investigation
Today’s news that six NRL stars will be interrogated over alleged match fixing, and face jail if they refuse to ...
The Do’s And Don’ts Of Telemarketing
In Australia we have some of the strictest telemarketing laws in the world and we need to. I’m sure everyone who ...
Boom Town
When I was a kid my brothers and I used to watch those corny old black-and-white midday matinee movies on TV, and ...
City Of Dreams
When I was a young girl growing up in Brazil, I would often visit family and friends in the beautiful, bustling ...
Widening The Door On BCIPA
A recent decision handed down in the Brisbane Magistrates Court could have far reaching effects for building ...
A Matter Of Restraint
Today’s news out of the Broncos Rugby League headquarters about an alleged “drunken incident” involving star ...
Privacy Talk – Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)
With Census Night just around the corner everyone is suddenly talking about Privacy. And so they should be. One of ...
Can Police Just Randomly Stop and Search Me?
At festivals like Splendour in the Grass and Greazefest, music lovers have become accustomed to seeing police ...
Trial of the Century
I was blown away by the latest ESPN ‘30 for 30’ documentary, ‘O.J.: Made in America’. Like the equally popular ...
Have You Seen Your Credit Status Lately?!
Have you checked your credit status lately? Chances are you’ve never heard of organisations like VEDA, Dunn and ...
The Candyman Can
Our perhaps most flamboyant and controversial client, the Gold Coast’s own Candyman, tobacco franchising supremo ...
Trolls Beware
The Australian justice system has at last stomped decisively into the 21st century, striking out at online ...
The Winds Of Change
What goes around comes around, I guess.
My wife and I spent this week visiting our youngest daughter at her home ...
Ali RIP
Over the weekend, a great hero passed away. Muhammad Ali was not just a giant of the sport of boxing, he was one ...
American Pie
Something crazy is happening in America right now. Crazy, and eerily familiar.
As the left and right of US ...
Fair Enough
"That’s not fair.”
My client’s assessment was spot-on, and more than a little ironic, given he was referring to ...
Sex and the Sleepy
Life is a risky undertaking that involves an endless series of perilous decisions. Some turn out triumphant, ...
Cracking The Egg – Separation and Superannuation Split
We work all our lives to create a nest-egg that will hopefully sustain us comfortably in our retirement, and in ...
Between Main and Dessert
“So what did you think of the Baden-Clay decision?”
It was the question I’d been dreading all night. As soon as it ...
Sadly, A Growth Industry – Relationship Breakdown And Separation
In the mid-1960’s around 10% of all Australian marriages ended in divorce. According to the Australian Institute ...
Scary Stories – Making A Murderer – Wrongful Conviction
This summer many of us became budding couch detectives and expert criminologists, all from the air-conditioned ...
Big Dog Says “Goodnight” – Queensland Lockout Laws
The hottest of hot topics in this state for the past couple of weeks has been the government’s push to implement ...
Ocean Road Magazine Summer Issue 2016 – Chris Nyst Interview
I am thrilled to see that the current 2016 Summer Issue of the prominent lifestyle publication Ocean Road Magazine ...
Stolen Children – Custody And International Child Abduction
Family law disputes often involve haggling over tens or hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property, ...
Dogs and Small Children
The old show business adage warns you should never work with animals or children. They’re unruly, unpredictable, ...
Introducing Gisele Reid – Family and Migration Law
Next Monday, when Nyst Legal officially re-opens its doors for 2016, we will have the pleasure of welcoming aboard ...
For The Record…
Last week the press had a field day taking pot-shots at Southport magistrate Bernadette Callaghan for ordering ...
The Hero Of Palmyra
The armed militants of Daesh, pillaging and plundering their way across the Middle East, proclaim ...
New Fix For Serial Junkies
If you're hooked, as I am, on the phenomenally popular podcast, Serial, crank up those earphones and get ready for ...
Would You Believe…
Criminal defence lawyers often deal with desperate people - desperate to clear their name, desperate to establish ...
“Kelly” MacGroarty RIP
This week saw the passing of my very dear friend and mentor Kelly Macgroarty, one of Queensland’s greatest ...
Sweet Little Fish
Little fish are sweet. High profile defamation actions and messy murder trials may make for big headlines, but ...
Taking On The State
Experienced lawyers will tell you, you can’t really call yourself a litigator until you’ve won the unwinnable ...