Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROPERTY LAW ACT 1974 - SECT 342

342 Specifically authorised publication

(1) A person may publish an account of a de facto proceeding in the following ways—

(a) by communicating, to a person involved in another proceeding in any court, a court document from the de facto proceeding for use in the other proceeding;

(b) by communicating a court document from the de facto proceeding to—

(i) a body responsible for disciplining members of the legal profession; or

(ii) a person involved in a disciplinary proceeding against a member of the legal profession;

(c) by communicating, to a body that grants legal aid, a court document from the de facto proceeding for use in deciding whether legal aid should be provided or continued in a particular case;

(d) by publishing a notice or report about the de facto proceeding by direction of a court;

(e) by publishing an account of the de facto proceeding in a publication that is—

(i) genuinely intended primarily for use by the members of a profession; and

(ii) a separate volume or part of a series of law reports or another publication of a technical character;

(f) by publishing an account of the de facto proceeding to—

(i) a member of a profession in relation to the member’s practice of the profession; or

(ii) a student in relation to the student’s studies.

(2) In this section—

"court" means a court or tribunal established under a law of the Commonwealth or a State.