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The society provides support and public advocacy for the legal profession. The society originated as an informal meeting of solicitors in Brisbane, on the 7th of August 1873, and was formalised as the "Queensland Law Association" in 1883. In 1927, it was incorporated under the current name, the "Queensland Law Society".
Following the 2017 Queensland state election and the machinery of government changes by the re-elected Palaszczuk Labor Government, the Youth Justice was moved to the newly established Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women and the Queensland Corrective Services becoming their own portfolio agency.
In the jurisdictions of England and Wales and in Northern Ireland, in the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, Hong Kong, South Africa (where they are called attorneys) and the Republic of Ireland, the legal profession is split between solicitors and barristers (called advocates in some countries, for example Scotland ...
An inter jurisdictional Legal Services Council was established in order to regulate the legal profession and its delivery of legal services. [7] This resulted in the creation of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 [ 8 ] and the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct Barristers' Rules 2015 .
Generally, the term is used in the context of Commonwealth countries, where the single profession of barrister and solicitor is provided by statute. In some jurisdictions (e.g., New South Wales , Queensland in Australia), there is a distinction between barristers and solicitors; legal practitioners must practise as either one or the other, and ...
Queensland and New South Wales formally split the legal profession between solicitors and barristers; South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory have "fused" the professions of barrister and solicitor, but each state maintains an independent bar for lawyers who solely practice as barristers; and
Walter Sofronoff KC is an Australian jurist and lawyer who served as the President of the Queensland Court of Appeal from 2017 to 2022 and as the Solicitor-General of Queensland from 2005 to 2014. Early life and education
Bill Potts is a Queensland criminal defence practitioner and a past president of Queensland Law Society. [1] He is a founding director of Potts Lawyers [2] Queensland's largest private criminal law firm. Since 2012 he has served as a Queensland Law Society Councillor, and was elected president 21 October 2015. [3] [4]