September 22, 2014 | 1,838 viewsDoes death become her? Solicitor wins on two week will delay

How urgently should a solicitor treat instructions for a new will from a frail but healthy and alert 94-yr-old, living independently with the assistance of a carer? That question confronted Sydney city centre lawyer Graham Howe who took instructions from Marie Fischer at her home on 25 March 2010 just prior to easter. With her concurrence he […]

July 31, 2012 | 12,423 viewsRiver boat accident yields small compensation pickings for boardroom mogul

Corporate high-flyers are rare protagonists in injury compensation brawls. So when Neil Balnaves sued after a 2002 head-on boat smash on a narrow bend

September 19, 2011 | 4,692 viewsPaint tinter’s limitation loss shines light on rights information censorship

The recent Supreme Court failure of a worker’s limitation extension application has highlighted once again how the statutory censorship regime that applies

September 18, 2011 | 6,579 views“Fobbed off” swim student overcomes solicitor’s neglect to scrape home on leave to proceed win

Despite no satisfactory explanation for a 3 year delay, a 26 yr old plaintiff was this month allowed to proceed with a negligent “schoolyard

July 25, 2011 | 4,201 viewsSolicitor vindicated in south-of-the-border switcheroo

A Beenleigh solicitor was exonerated on Thursday after the Supreme Court decided he had not been responsible for any misappropriation of sale proceeds where he had accepted a deposit of title deeds

May 12, 2011 | 25,389 viewsState defeated on workers’ claims: just how unsafe are Southbank slabs?

Workers have succeeded twice in two weeks against operators of Brisbane’s state-owned Southbank complex, defeating arguments that their only rights lay in workers’

March 13, 2011 | 10,041 viewsBroken neck from dive into Fitzroy River: “high” risk known to council

The Supreme Court has ruled on the claim of a 17-year-old student who sustained quadriplegia in September 2002 when his head struck the river bed during after-school play resulting in $5 million agreed damages. Timothy Felhaber had been swinging on an improvised rope swing from the bough of a tree in a popular area of the river […]

March 7, 2011 | 11,148 viewsSuncorp triumphant in limitation brawl with naïve 16 yr old – what did she know?

Elizabeth Hargans was in year 11 at Somerville House school when she was injured in June 2004 when her then boyfriend drove into parked cars on a bottle shop run from a Graceville party they were attending.

February 18, 2011 | 14,123 viewsMy 127 Hours in Miami – an AAJ travelogue

Despite the last minute cancellation of the International Practice Section meeting – one of the major reasons for overseas members attending – a record turnout of nearly 1600 assured the success of last week’s winter Convention of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) in Miami.

October 14, 2010 | 23,665 viewsNZ visitors cautioned over second class legal system: Kiwi embassy must alter misleading website

If you or your family are planning a trip to New Zealand, be warned that as you step off the aircraft after landing, you are entering a legal-liability free zone. In an experiment that began nearly 40 years ago, New Zealand decided

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