Lawyers Serving Indooroopilly
Indooroopilly is four suburbs from our Kenmore base. It is also a commercial and student centre, which changes the mix of matters that come from it.
Terra Australis Legal acts for clients in Indooroopilly from our base at nearby Kenmore, in criminal, family, domestic violence, employment, commercial and litigation matters. Indooroopilly is within the Brisbane local government area, so criminal charges and protection order applications are ordinarily heard in the Brisbane Magistrates Court and family law matters in the Brisbane registry of the Federal Circuit and Family Court.
A commercial centre, not just a residential suburb
Indooroopilly is different in character from the suburbs immediately west of it. It has a major shopping centre, a rail interchange, a substantial retail and hospitality workforce, and a large student population drawn by proximity to the University of Queensland at St Lucia. That mix produces a distinct set of legal problems.
From Indooroopilly we see proportionally more employment matters arising from retail and hospitality work — dismissals, underpayment concerns, and disputes about rostering and casual conversion — and more commercial matters connected to small business tenancies. Retail leasing in Queensland is regulated differently from ordinary commercial leasing, with disclosure obligations and minimum terms that favour the tenant; we deal with that on our commercial leasing page.
There is also a volume of traffic and licence work, which is unsurprising given the arterial roads and the river crossings. For a young worker or student, losing a licence is often a more serious practical problem than the fine, and whether anything can be done about it is decided at the sentencing hearing rather than afterwards.
How we actually work, and what we are not
Terra Australis Legal is based at Kenmore, with a postal address of PO Box 386, Kenmore QLD 4069. Our postal address is PO Box 386, Kenmore QLD 4069. A great deal of our work — taking instructions, reviewing documents, advising on options — is done by phone, email and video, which is faster for most people than travelling to an office and costs less.
Where a matter needs a face-to-face meeting, call 1300 165 767 and we will confirm how and where. Where it needs someone in court, we appear.
We are admitted in the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia and act for clients across Queensland and, in Commonwealth matters such as family law and employment, Australia-wide.
Where matters from Indooroopilly are heard
Indooroopilly is within the Brisbane local government area, so the position is the same as for the rest of inner-western Brisbane.
If you work in retail or hospitality
Two points are worth knowing before something goes wrong. The first is the time limit: an unfair dismissal or general protections application must be lodged within twenty-one days of the dismissal taking effect. Extensions are possible but require exceptional circumstances, and they are refused often enough that the limit should be treated as absolute.
The second is that being called a casual does not settle your entitlements. What matters is the substance of the arrangement — whether there is a firm advance commitment to ongoing work — rather than the label in the contract. If you have worked regular, predictable shifts for a long period, it is worth getting advice rather than assuming the label is the answer. Our employment law page covers this in more detail.