Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Where by any settlement or will (whether made before or after the commencement of this Act), a settlor or testator directs that any practising solicitor shall conduct the legal business of his or her estate, that solicitor is entitled to act therein accordingly, but in such case a trustee company concerned shall not be liable for any loss occasioned by the negligence, misfeasance, nonfeasance or misconduct of the solicitor unless such loss could have been prevented or avoided by the exercise of due care on the part of the trustee company.
(2) A solicitor entitled to conduct the legal business of an estate under subsection (1) may be removed by the Court or a Judge upon the application of the trustee company or of any person interested in that estate upon cause shown, and the Court or Judge may appoint a solicitor nominated by the trustee company to conduct such legal business in the first solicitor's place.