Brisbane CBD looking from Kangaroo Point
“Bold and Excellent”
Tyndall & Co. are experienced solicitors located in Brisbane, Australia. We are also a worldwide Australian immigration lawyers and a management consultant.
OUR LEGAL SERVICES
Jonathan de Vere Tyndall, LLM UNSW
Solicitor

Australian Immigration Lawyers
Australia has become a highly sought‑after destination for people seeking opportunity, stability, and a better quality of life. It is a stable constitutional monarchy, a liberal democracy, and a first‑world nation with strong institutions and a well‑established rule of law rooted in British legal tradition. The country offers a high standard of living, excellent wages and working conditions, sound investment prospects, sustained economic growth, and enduring political and economic stability.
Australia protects individual rights through robust legal frameworks and a keen national sense of justice. It has a deep natural and Indigenous heritage, together with a growing national commitment to recognition, respect, and reconciliation with First Nations peoples. With vast open spaces, a relatively small population, a warm climate, and a culture of spiritual, religious, racial, and ethnic tolerance, Australia offers both physical and social room to thrive.
Australians value fairness, community, sporting excellence, and the enduring ANZAC spirit — a tradition of courage, service, mateship, and loyalty to King and country, to our allies, and to doing the right thing. Australia is often called “the lucky country.” It is, quite simply, fair dinkum.

Criminal Law
There is a fundamental principle that all defendants are innocent until proven guilty, that they have the right to a fair trial and to not self-incriminate. Defendants have the right to confidential and privileged legal advice, which cannot be used against them. These are common law principles and rights. It is not up to us as lawyers to judge you, this is for the Court. It is for us to help without bias or judgment, and to fight fearlessly within the law to present the best case possible to the Court for the client.

Family Law
In property adjustment cases, there is no presumption of equality. The 50:50 split is not a principle of law or a right. The wife’s homemaker and parent contribution ought to be recognised in a substantial and not a token way. Any property adjustment will be contribution driven. With children’s and parenting time cases, there is a presumption of equal shared parenting responsibility, however, the best interests of a child will always be first and paramount and rebut that presumption.

Business Law – Banking, Securities, Derivatives law
We prepare contracts and agreements for business clients including purchase, sale and contractor agreements, company and employment contracts and shareholder agreements . We advise client on commercial matters including banking and investments. A bank owes the customer a duty of care, which is to take reasonable care in carrying out its contractual obligations with the customer. A bank does not owe a fiduciary duty to a customer, except in special circumstances where it has gone further than normal. A bank has no general duty to advise a customer that a loan or a purchase is not a good decision. A bank can look after its own interests ahead of the customer. The playing field is not necessarily level.
Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Knightsbridge, London, England U.K.
Wan Chai, Hong Kong (Migration and Management Consulting)
Level 34, Waterfront Way, 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane QLD 4000
JONATHAN
“I HAVE BEEN HELPING CLIENTS FOR MORE THAN 34 YEARS. FOR ME, BEING A LAWYER IS A CALLING, NOT A JOB. IT IS ABOUT HELPING OTHERS.”
JONATHAN DE VERE TYNDALL, PRINCIPAL OF TYNDALL & CO.

TYNDALL & CO.
Tyndall & Co. is a small law firm that provides clients with huge advantages over big firms. Privacy is critical today. It is a basic human right which is being constantly and subtly eroded from all sides. We offer, as a small firm of Solicitors, an increased level of privacy, helpfulness and responsibility that the “mega-lawyers” cannot deliver. We strive as Solicitors to be bold and excellent for clients, as in our motto. We are also a world-wide Australian Immigration lawyers. We prepare Visa applications to Australia for National Innovation Visas, family visas, work visas, student visas, visitor visa and citizenship. We also do visa refusals and reviews. And as a Management Consultant we can advise on strategy and implementation and help you achieve business success in local and overseas markets.
RECENT LEGAL ARTICLES
Criminal Record Not Lethal to Australian Visas
Article about failing the Character Test because of criminal convictions and why that may not be lethal to a visa application or a visa grant because of the Ministerial discretion.
07 July 2025 by Jonathan de Vere Tyndall
FIRB is the Good Gatekeeper
Article about buying residential property in Australia and FIRB approval 28 September 2021 by Jonathan de Vere Tyndall and Nina Spencer
AREAS OF LAW PRACTISED
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