The Queensland Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, with reasons delivered by McPherson JA (with which Williams JA and Jones J agreed). The substantive reasoning is not reproduced in the available text, so the legal holdings cannot be ascertained from this excerpt alone. The Court reserved the question of costs, allowing 10 days for written submissions.
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