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Small aviation and space businesses can access Qld Govt Grant for legal advice through the Small Business COVID-19 Adaption Grant Program - Round 2 is now open as of 1 July and will only receive applications for a short time. Use grant funds to ensure you have...

IALPG is proud to unveil its newest practice area with a service offering geared towards aviation industry participants. We are now able to assist airlines or other air operators and their employees (be they flight crew or otherwise) who find themselves in workplace...

Bruce Towers (Mr Towers) was employed by Hevilift Limited (Hevilift) in 2006 as a helicopter pilot.  Hevilift provided air transport for workers in a mining project in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. On 20 April 2006, Mr Towers was ferrying mine workers to a camp site...

This article – ‘Sexual assaults in the sky: The failure of aviation law and how to fix it’ – first appeared in Precedent, the journal of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, issue 151, published in April 2019 (Sydney, Australia, ISSN 1449-7719). It has been reproduced...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant change to the lives of many, bringing with it unprecedented statutory allowances across many industries including in aviation law. On 22 April 2020, the Queensland Parliament passed new legislation that allows courts to...

 So you've been on a flight that a COVID-19 infected person has travelled on too? The tragedy of this situation may never eventuate but of course you might have concerns. Given the public health emergency that is the COVID-19 pandemic, and the recent (applicable...

On 26 January 2020, a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, the famous American basketball icon, crashed in Calabasas, California killing all onboard, including Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna and 8 other people. On 24 February 2020, a star-studded...