Archives June 2026

This article was written by Nancy Wang Principal Solicitor at W & G Lawyers. 

When most people hear “contaminated land,” they picture an old factory site or a fenced-off industrial yard — someone else’s problem, somewhere else. The reality is closer to home. The kind of contamination now making headlines can sit quietly in the soil of an ordinary suburban block or a rural property, and it can travel underground from a source kilometres away to land beneath a home that had nothing to do with it.

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By Bosheng (Greg) Shi,Bond University Bachelor of Laws Graduate and Practical Legal Training Student at the College of Law

During my Practical Legal Training placement at W & G Lawyers, I had the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience across family law, civil litigation and tribunal matters. The placement allowed me to apply the legal knowledge developed during my studies at Bond University to real client matters and court processes. It significantly strengthened my practical skills and provided me with a deeper understanding of the responsibilities and professional standards expected of a solicitor.

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This article was written by Nancy Wang Principal Solicitor at W & G Lawyers. 

Recent Queensland Supreme Court decision is a useful reminder of where a financier stands when a development collapses and the lender has to pick up the tools itself. The short answer: a mortgagee who takes possession and completes a half-built project can usually recover what it spends ahead of the other lenders holding security over the property — but only if its security and any priority arrangements are drafted to allow it.

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This article was written by Jialin Liu Solicitor at W & G Lawyers.

Serving court documents is often one of the first and most important steps in a legal matter. Whether you are commencing a debt recovery claim, civil litigation, family law proceedings, or a sole application for divorce, the other party usually needs to be properly notified before the matter can move forward.

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This article was written by Jialin Liu Solicitor at W & G Lawyers.

Following separation, parenting arrangements and child support are two separate legal issues. However, they are often confused.

Many parents assume that if care arrangements are shared equally, no child support will be payable. Others believe that the parent who spends more time caring for the children should automatically receive more financial support. Under Australian law, neither assumption is necessarily correct.

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This article was written by Nancy Wang Principal Solicitor at W & G Lawyers. 

In an earlier article we looked at what happens when a trust deed cannot be found. There is a quieter problem that is, in some ways, more dangerous — because the deed is sitting right in front of you, fully typed, neatly formatted, and apparently signed. The trouble is how it was signed. Increasingly we are seeing trust deeds, variation deeds, and deeds appointing or removing trustees where an image of someone’s signature has simply been dropped into the document — copied from an earlier file, lifted from a scan, or pasted from a photo — rather than properly signed.

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This article was written by Melinda Gao Principal Solicitor at W & G Lawyers. 

What is Money Laundering?

Money laundering is when someone takes money earned through crime — say, from drug dealing or fraud — and tries to make it look like it came from a legitimate source. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws exist to stop this from happening by requiring certain businesses to check who their clients are and watch out for anything suspicious.

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This article was written by Nancy Wang Principal Solicitor at W & G Lawyers. 

Lost trust deeds are far more common than most clients expect. An adviser retires and their files are dispersed, a family member passes away and their papers are cleared out, an office relocates and a folder never resurfaces — and the single document underpinning an entire trust structure simply vanishes. The trust may have operated smoothly for decades, but the moment someone needs the original deed, its absence becomes a real and pressing problem.

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