A private fee-charging school is a 'business' for the purposes of s 93(1)(a) of the Evidence Act 1977 (Qld), and records of a school's investigation into alleged teacher impropriety, prepared at the request of school management, are admissible as business records under that section even where the author has died. The difference between the Queensland and NSW statutory regimes (absence of a provision equivalent to s 137 of the Evidence Act 1995 (NSW)) limits the utility of NSW authorities on discretionary exclusion of hearsay evidence in Queensland criminal proceedings.
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