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• Waiving Cooling off Periods – How when and by whom?
• New tenancy laws part 2: Important changes for property managers
• WorkCover changes part of creeping eradication of individual rights
• Recovery of CTP compensation if injured by stationary vehicle? When?
• Coercion provisions in national conduct rules against public interest
• Unregulated airline pilot training a black hole safety risk for air passengers
• Court allows renewal of claim 13 years after injury: Plaintiff excused in "sorry saga" of "dilatory" solicitors
• NZ visitors cautioned over second class legal system: Kiwi embassy must alter misleading website
• ‘Leisurely pace’ of litigation fails to sink tourist’s Whitsunday boat accident claim
• Probable improbables: Driller takes on liability share in fall down unsafe Newcrest mine shaft
• Taxi cab confession costly: Client’s claim not filed because of poor prospects
• Council denies liability for bus driver bashed while guarding its cash
• Privilege prevails over staff expert records: defendants to gain forensic advantage
• Compensation claim outside 3 years: Plaintiffs escape time bar on "Battery"; do PIPA & CLA apply?
• Court excuses car owner from $200k liability because parent there to make joyride call
• Allianz a slave to doomed appeal strategy: accident injuries confirmed genuine
• Road rage traffic dodger collected on Logan Rd: driver targets home insurer for $660k foot chase death
• Sixteen schooner a day miner survives tax and drug slurs: escapes with $380k and pride
• Exemplary damages for sexual abuse and trespass: when can you get them?
• Woolies check out clanger cashes out customer & changes food fall floor claims forever
• Painter prisoner in well timed lurch at puddle payment
• Legless lass chalks up litigation loss in "I’ll rip your head off" hotel confrontation
• Small step for one man, a giant leap from rigs and their kind
• Call girls faultless in city hotel room needle stick injury
• River boat accident yields small compensation pickings for boardroom mogul
• Serial claimant’s ‘mildly mental’ plea to stop compensation clock
• Suspicion of undeclared work no bar to $400k win for long suffering kiwi
• Living green: homeowners’ hazard prevention does not require pruning overgrown habitat
• Trucker beats suspicion in Nerang crash injury win
• Wharfie put to ‘back-breaking’ work, employer not liable for back break
• ‘Gun’ tiler outnumbered, jail time too high an obstacle to win
• Expert roll call for airport cycle smash
• Appeal court ups damages to mark disapproval of prisoner treatment
• Redcliffe’s many favourite sons: city’s role in "snail in the bottle" story
• ‘Puzzling’ plaintiff paints confusing picture, sinks claim
• New cruise ship injury laws on horizon: "Grandeur" set ablaze
• Cruise passenger bill of rights: just PR?
• State files appeal in Fraser Island tetraplegia claim
• Court choice forces lower damages payout for injured farm labourer
• Army injury records shaft miner in $1.9mil damages ask
• Sexagenarian selfie wins limitation extension for legal precinct whack
• Qld workers face job interview booby trap, employer discrimination ok
• Worker bumped on $2 mil claim; fall at function not foodie’s fault
• Workbench injury a private affair – Court
• Solicitor advice dooms wrist injury limitation extension?
• Expense & inconvenience too great for multinational corps to bear, safety measure ‘not warranted’
• Air crew errors responsible for Russian air tragedy
• Dear America: A letter from home down under
• Trans African crash kills 34 in remote game park, rogue pilot flies plane into ground
• Telfer windshear exposes passengers to hard landing and causes major aircraft damage
• Video footage beats up on hoist injury shoulder claim
• Workcover bruised on 1, 2, 3 self-defence training technique, psych nurse collects
• Pledge now: Not to Txt and drive
• Qantas and others face more frequent turbulence claims as consequence of climate change
• ‘Hobby’ drone in Australia’s first near miss with commercial aircraft
• N.T. cattleman sues Robinson over crash, claims helicopter "defective"
• Is single-engine flying training a dangerous recreational activity?
• ‘Glow in the dark’ bowling lane action a slippery affair
• ‘Glow in the dark’ bowling lane action a slippery affair
• Meat worker boned, inconsistencies and exaggeration sink claim
• Litigators to take aim at controllers and regulators over MH-17 flightpath
• Terror bluster wrong message to prevent division
• Council Negligence: Loose stones road death, ‘roadworks’ warning insufficient
• Terror hysteria aside, police powers already rival Gestapo says judge
• Council argues immunity on $2.9 mil car barrier civil liability lawsuit
• Aussies more vocal at losing # 1 bragging rights than on reef degradation
• Sluggish economy looms over Queensland election
• Dual career triathelete poses income loss quandry
• RACQ mines childhood social media posts to block $$ to Mackay 4WD accident victim
• Behind Queensland’s ballot-box backlash
• Uber Alles?
• Taking home what’s left of your meal- what’s the law?
• Pilot inexperience a potential factor in budget airline crashes
• Employer in $2 mil battle over resolution of hostile co-worker complaints
• Competing drivers’ duties: heavy weaving vehicle v. "follower" with chance to evade hazard
• Intersection crash yields $64k for worker likely be laid off first & recruited last
• New Rewards for CCL cycling members
• Doctor in local lawsuit for Bangkok culinary calamity
• Sex accusation by Txt brings $100k defamation ask
• Reticence to report a potential roadblock to Rio worker’s injury recovery
• UK tourists fail to Captain Cook, campervan U-turn splatters Sunday morning bikers
• PTSD and depression: psychiatric injuries of the mind or organic in origin?
• Insurer hits back at $390k home upkeep damages for neighbour’s pathway fall
• Disc degeneration proved trauma-induced but selfie-inflicted damage sinks eco loss claim
• Candyman nanny left with sour taste over claim $$
• Electrician escapes blame on $820k house inferno; meter, not wiring the cause
• Solicitor sues his lawyer, jet ski injury compensation damages not enough
• “Nothing accident” aggravates pre-existing condition on sideways sitting forklift?
• Fee-split contractor a worker for injury compensation
• PI lawyers do battle: witness box polish vs imperfection & apprehension
• MVA Golf Pro refused leave to add $4mil to claim
• 5 must-know tips for first home buyers
• Psych injury halts MVA return to work, cannabis no bar to $450k damages
• Young Drivers: Here’s what you need to know
• Facebook brings Woodford brain injury claimant crashing back to earth
• Landlord fails to evict Airbnb ‘sublet’ tenants
• The TOP SIX clangers in work claims
• Stress in the workplace. What goes?
• Is their school liable for your kids’ safety?
• Tourist crossing tragedy, QBE trumped on $2 mil future loss claim
• Property guide – helpful tips for purchasing off-the-plan property
• Cyclists in hi-vis – Council call for new safety rule
• Roads to avoid – Wild weather predicted
• Slater and Gordon sue over Qunindell acquisition
• Crane collapse leaves workers hanging inside
• Work place injuries – which profession are you most likely to get hurt in?
• The booming suburbs of Brisbane – median house prices double
• Police botch harbour cruise taxi arrest, Gold Coast property developer gets $582k
• Who will be Australian of the year 2017 – Sydney Lawyer Deng Adut?
• Schoolies, is the festival a rite of passage or legal nightmare?
• Christmas Season Legal Blues
• Flight goes down in Columbia with only 6 of the 77 passengers surviving
• Plane over shoots runway in Columbia killing 5 passengers
• Laws from the globe, so strange you didn’t know they existed
• Texas Injury Firm lawyer among Melbourne aircraft crash victims
• Passenger sues for wrongful detention & excessive force in international airport bust up
• Ambulance man drops stretcher; Island stroke victim wins $560k
• Wee hours tumble at roadhouse landmark
• Driverless cars and the legal issues surrounding liability
• Conveyancing Frequently Asked Questions
• Pilot crashes in cloud after pressing on, sues for inadequate weather warnings
• Suncorp thwarted in highway head-on limitation extension road block
• Tiny fire stair height variation a ‘hidden trap’: Physio in $1.8 mil damages win
• Bourke Street Claims
• Allison Baden-Clay daughters to receive insurance payout
• The Federal Budget – Winners and Losers
• Need for speed cruels rider’s $892k compensation payout
• FIFO worker sues for PNG slip and fall in Brisbane
• Watch dog ACCC takes Thermomix to court over consumer injuries
• Hotel to blame for lax wet weather safety measures
• Selling Your Business Checklists | Our Proven Formula, Advice & Steps Of Sale
• Oh Snap! PT session ends in hospital stint
• Airlines’ overseas agreements ruled illegal for their effect on Australian competition
• Do I really need a conveyancer?
• Rebel Wilson awarded 4.56 million in defamation suit
• fatigue driving the same as drink driving?
• WOMAN SUES GOLD COAST HOLIDAY PARK FOR $4MIL TRAMPOLINE INJURY
• What to do when you’ve been injured at work
• How To Sue For Personal Injury
• Model patient wins humiliation $$ after Dr’s unwelcome full body exam
• One small step for man – employers reminded to keep up the training to staff
• Three Cs biker overcomes chequered police history to defeat Suncorp shakedown in highway tanker prang
• Psychiatrist’s suspicions hosed out on miner’s $1 mil depressive illness claim
• Tourist boat back injury foreseeable, just not where big wave caused tourist’s broken back
• C.Q. court to review Brisbane bus accident compensation settlement, refuses case transfer
• Injury settlement funds depleted, victim recovers financial loss from advisor
• Hazard warnings part of road repair function: council pays biker $304k for absent danger sign
• Truck accident avoidable by flouting traffic laws; court holds driver negligent for not flouting
• Ford v Ferrari: at-fault insurers must pay for equivalent luxury in replacement vehicle hire
• Jockey’s $5 mil racetrack injury suit splits court 3/2 on appeal
• Pilot skewered in amusement ride crash; Teenage rider in big psych damages win
• White Island cruise ship passengers win big: Royal Caribbean refused anti-suit injunction
• Park fall plaintiff wins all points on appeal: “single steps in thoroughfares are dangerous”
• Oz courts to aid overseas Ruby Princess pax: class action waiver clause “unfair”
• Senior employee wins psych payout for reasonable management action taken unreasonably
• Federal Court tops up injury damages with Fair Work compensation
• Royal Caribbean overturns sex assault suspect false imprisonment ruling
• Low impact injury, nil physical symptoms: not-at-fault driver wins $201k
• Unfulfilled brochure promises cost tour operator $30 mil in cruise passenger claims
• Fatigued driver wins $1.13 mil from employer for single vehicle accident
• Car Accident Facts: 9 Essential Truths That Could Save Your Life
• Driver in head-on highway accident also responsible for collision 2km distant
• Left unconscious in the back of hot car: does CTP apply to heatstroke injuries?
• DV outreach worker awarded $1.25 mil for assault by client’s husband
• Tragic farm worker accident: employer’s fault or that of auger supplier?
• Seaworld helicopter tragedy must be a catalyst for law change
• Safety measures messages mixed: thumb injury costs firm $727k
• Intoxicated reveller damages bar: how criminal must conduct be?
• Venue liability for influencer bar assault stayed pending appeal
• Hot pursuit of at-fault driver not essential for unidentified vehicle claim
• Real estate agents sued for open house driveway injury
• Judge pans Dalby plant operator’s denial of hazard creation liability
• Car accident claimant holds back medical history; wins $285k
• Heavily drunk patron wins $12.5 mil for bouncer retaliation
• Spinal surgery gone wrong: patients in compensation push
• Turbulence event exposes Air Canada to major damages claims
• Hospital to pay big for patient’s bowel perforations and stroke
• GP negligent for failing to follow up non-compliant patient
• Without warning: emotional worker sues for demotion hurt
• DV assailant waives spouse’s claim limitation defence from his cell
• Two separate accidents, one $635k win
• Abuse survivor in win against carer, but fails against spouse & state
• Stoic chippie wins $602k for “minor” injury
• Medical victim wins $5 mil cost of care for his remaining years
• Back breaking work breaks worker’s back
• Instructor intervention the cause of horror runway crash
• Engineer liable for missing helicopter fatigue crack