Paul O’Shea

Dr Paul O'Shea is a commercial and business lawyer with 24 years

experience in commercial litigation. He is a Senior Lecturer in commercial,

consumer and banking and finance law at the University of Queensland. He

has acted for various parties in some of Australia's leading cases in consumer

credit law and has published extensively in professional and academic

journals and books on credit and commercial law generally.

He is the is the principal solicitor at O’Shea Lawyers, the firm he established

in 2000 whilst working at the University of Queensland where he gained his

doctorate in 2012. His latest book is Credit, Consumers and the Law: After the

global storm - 1st Edition - (routledge.com)

Paul talks about:

 Mission hopping with a letter from his local Catholic bishop that

allowed him to travel extensively in Papua New Guinea for free.

 His call to the priesthood and why he didn’t follow through

 His advocacy in Rafiki v Thomas and whether an “instalment contract”

was credit for the purposes of the Credit Act.

 Why a district court judge asked him if he would lend the court his

annotated copy of the Credit Act.

 Teaching Americans the finer points of Australia’s preferential voting

system

 Playing piano at the Qld rugby union club

 His father selling a fridge to an eskimo

 Why Di Fingelton encouraged him to leave private practice and join a

community organisation

 His thesis on consumer law as a subset of contract law

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