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James Tan

PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS

Director
James Tan

(Brisbane based)

James Tan focus areas of practice within Vocare Law are litigation, and not for profit governance (including charities and schools).

James Tan
Published Decisions

Apart from his trial experience, James has experience in advising clients on the following matters:

Litigation

  • Breaches of director and fiduciary duties, and governance failures.
  • Contractual disputes and debt recovery.
  • Retail and commercial lease disputes.
  • Partnership, shareholder and membership disputes, “splits”, dissolutions and winding-up applications.
  • Supervised Case List and Commercial List matters.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Biomedical Science
  • Masters of Business (Finance)
  • Bachelor of Laws at the University of Queensland, and
  • Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the College of Law

Outside of the practice of law, James is actively involved in his local community and serves at his local Church.  His leadership contributions include:

  • Board of Queensland Baptists – 2024 to present.
  • Council of Lutheran Education Queensland – Consultant – 2022 to 2023.
  • Carinity (a Public Benevolent Institution) – Board Member – 2020 to 2023.
  • Gateway Baptist Church – Risk and Compliance Sub-Committee – 2020 to present.
  • Queensland Law Society Innovation Committee – Member – 2019 to 2022.
  • Redeemer Lutheran College Risk and Compliance Sub-Committee – Chairperson – 2019 to 2024.
  • Redeemer Lutheran College Council Member – 2016 to 2020.

James also has experience practicing in Fiji where he obtained a temporary practicing certificate as part of a secondment called Lawyers Exchange and Development (LEAD) program.  This program was a pilot project of the Kingdom International Legal Network.

Recent Publications
  • Disclosing private information regarding schools
  • Privacy Act Amendments 
  • How can my organisation access the Government’s COVID-19 financial assistance?
  • I Heard It Through The Grapevine: Social Media As A Vehicle Of Defamation
  • An Overview of the Religious Freedom Bills
  • Discrimination in Schools – Uniform policy vs. Religious beliefs
  • Changes to Smoke Alarm Legislation. Does your house comply?
  • Challenging “Fake” Medical Certificate
  • Conflicting Legal Duties – Lessons from Sullivan v Moody [2001] HCA 59
  • Uniform/Dress Codes: Employee Dismissed for Breach of ‘Clean-Shaven’ Policy
  • Top 3 Strategies for Dealing with Unpaid School Fees
  • Setting Aside Transactions | Directors’ Breach of Their Duties
  • Information, Security & Privacy: A New Year Refresher for 2015
  • Correlation Between Bullying and Discrimination in The Workplace
  • Upcoming Privacy Law Reforms and the Importance of Updating your Privacy Policy
  • Interim Orders and Injunctions in Discrimination Cases
  • Genuine Redundancy? The importance of Consultation & Redeployment
  • Evidence for Personal, Carer, Sick Leave

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