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    • Jon Denovan
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    • Carolyn Bond
    • Teresa Corbin
    • Raj Venga
    • Gerard Brody
    • Abe Arends
    • Peter Cousins
    • Emma Swart
    • Kimberley Maeyaert
    • Randal Dennings
    • Noel Nunan
    • Theresa Jennings
    • Michael Forde
    • Brian Herd
    • Kieren Pender
    • Margaret Arthur
    • Paul O’Shea
    • Reeanna Maloney
    • Mark Lombard
    • Tracey Kariwo
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    • Denis McMahon
    • Robyna May
    • Noel Whittaker
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Paul O’Shea

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

Contact Dr Paul O’Shea via https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-paul-o-shea-

57678a63/ or if you want to engage his services by contacting the firm O’Shea 

Lawyers Pty Ltd in Stafford Heights Qld

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