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Did The Minister's Dog Eat Hubby's Homework?
05 August 09 10:05 AM | Peter Mericka | 4 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Former corruption investigator Tony Fitzgerald QC and former premier Wayne Goss recently charged that Queensland’s Beattie and Bligh governments had let the state Read More...

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Estate Agents As "Legal Advisers"?
28 January 09 06:33 AM | Peter Mericka | 6 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Harcourts real estate agent, Lester Drew, in a recent letter to the editor of Queensland's Courier Mail criticised an earlier column in that newspaper about selling Read More...

Filed under: conflict of interests, harcourts, Jimboomba, legal advice, queensland

Preventing Estate Agents From Preparing Contracts
13 March 08 05:21 AM | Peter Mericka | 11 Comments   

by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au After firing more than a few verbal bullets over recent months at Queensland’s Attorney-General (and Fair Trading Minister) Kerry Shine in The Courier Mail and Gold Coast Read More...

Filed under: Agent, conflict of interests, Contract, contract note, contract of sale, Conveyancing, Estate agent, ethics, kerry shine, queensland