Hugh Powell

Principal & Sunshine Coast Leader

Privilege or Protection? What the KPMG Saga Tells us about Workplace Investigations

KPMG’s recent audit leak crisis has exposed a familiar corporate playbook when it comes to crisis response strategy: engage external lawyers to investigate, then claim...

Riding the Wave: How Surfing Transforms Mind and Body

Few sports have seen such a dramatic shift in societal acceptance and perception over the past half century than surfing. Once dismissed as being the...

Drowning: at what cost to rescue another? 

With the summer holidays upon us, beachgoers and ocean-lovers will flee to the water in Australia. Being in the ocean brings with it a feeling...

Leg ropes in the line-up – are we looking after one another?

Last month the coastlines along South-East Queensland and Northern NSW experienced their best swell event for the year so far. The source of this was...

Road rules and common sense – who is responsible for an accident?  

As the Christmas holidays near, the streets of many coastal towns will soon see an influx of holidaymakers looking to soak up the sun at...

Why are almost half of our work-related fatalities occurring on our roads?

According to the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland, fatigue contributes to 20% to 30% of all injuries and deaths on the road....

Australia’s only validated psychosocial risk assessment tool launched

People at Work have recently launched Australia’s only validated psychosocial risk assessment tool. This is a great new initiative aimed at reducing workplace injuries and...

Truth, memories, recall, and the law

Mark Twain once said, “if you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything”. The inference being that a truthful person can use their...

Riding the wave between work and play – a work-related paddle boarding injury in Bali

International work conferences: the glorious concept where a company whisks away its workers to some tropical destination in the name of “professional development and bonding”....

“Once you stop learning, you start dying.”

This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein. A bit dramatic perhaps, but important nonetheless. Learning is an inherent aspect of life as a lawyer. It...