BA 

LLB(Hons)(Qld) 

LLM PhD (Bond) 

Michael Weir has broad professional experience as a solicitor in private legal practice
in commercial and property law. 

Academically he has published extensively on Land Law and Planning Law and is an author
of Real Property Law in Queensland, LBC (2nd edition, 2004). 

His research interest in Medicine and the Law is reflected in the student textbook
Complementary Medicine: Ethics and Law, Prometheus Publications in 2000 (second edition
2003). 

Michael is currently Deputy Dean of the Law Faculty

Articles

An ethical protocol for complementary and alternative medicine practitioners in an orthodox medicine regime, Journal of Law and Medicine (2011)

Concern that has been expressed about the provision of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in...

Link

Medical merchants: Conflict of interest, office product sales and notifiable conduct (with Malcolm H. Parker, Jon L. Wardle, and Cameron L. Stewart), Medical Journal of Australia (2011)

Professional ethical codes indentify the issue of conflict of interest, which can distort doctors' objective...

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The Westfield Case: A Change for the Better?, Bond Law Review (2010)

Easements are interests in land of ancient origin. Any survey of authority in this area...

Intervention methods and processes, Law papers (2008)

This book targets a wide range of allied health professions. The list, while not exhaustive,...

Regulation of complementary and alternative medicine: An international perspective, Law papers (2006)

The regulatory structure for complementary and alternative medicine worldwide reflects an orthodox medicine perspective that...

Books

Real property law in Queensland (with Carmel MacDonald, Les McCrimmon, and Anne Wallace), Law papers (2010)

The third edition of this work provides an update on some significant reforms in real...

Alternative medicine: a new regulatory model, Law papers (2005)

This book analyses the current regulatory structure and how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is...

Book Chapters

Goods and consumer issues, Law and Ethics in Conplementary Medicine (2011)

Extract:

As well as supplying services, many practitioners supply substances such as vitamins, food supplements and...

Restricted acts and protected titles, Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine (2011)

Extract:

A health professional uses all available techniques to resolve the health concerns of a...

Wither covenants in Queensland in the name of sustainability?, Property and Sustainability: Selected essays (2011)

The law relevant to covenants has been described as a "blundering conceptualist jungle full of...

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Introduction to the book "Complementary Medicine : ethics and law", Complementary Medicine : ethics and law (2007)

[Extract] Successful professional practice requires technical, business and personal skills and an ability to deal...

Co-ownership (with Carmel MacDonald), Real property law in Queensland (2005)

Real Property Law in Queensland gives a clear and concise account of the fundamental principles...