CCL Blog: Take the Law........

08 December

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Opinonian

Bay of Pigs: Moti scandal disguises Australia shame

Yesterday’s decision to trash the prosecution of a former Solomon Islands attorney general – though the end of a brutal four year battle for Julia

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20 January

3053 Views

Personal Injury

Suncorp steers by sirens’ song: Classy clipper cuts $500k cheque

Claimants’ medical records can so preoccupy an insurer that they become powerless to resist: like mythica

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24 January

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Personal Injury

Sixteen schooner a day miner survives tax and drug slurs: escapes with $380k and pride

In a Supreme Court verdict published last week, a Cardwell mine worker's exaggerated recovery from youthful sporting injuries slashed the compensation

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25 January

3059 Views

Personal Injury

Worker absolved of sins of delay, lives to fight another day

A seriously injured truck driver "of limited education" has won the right to pursue motor accident compensation damages after a last gasp limitation e

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24 February

4050 Views

Personal Injury

Sidewalk straddler smacked: $124k for pedestrian wing mirror blow

The Supreme Court this month ruled that pedestrians have every right to stroll on a roadway surface, awarding compensation to a Rockhampton teenager w

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25 February

6244 Views

Personal Injury

Suspicious minds fuel desperate defence: "continuum of symptoms" routs bank beat up

A "big four" bank was last week ordered to halt its refusal of injury compensation to a Gladstone customer server who fell to the floor when the bac

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28 February

4625 Views

Personal Injury

Glaring errors absent in remote rest-stop trip damages payout

It took two trials and as many appeals before three judges, last week finally put Sonia Littlejohn's bitterly contested compensation award against the

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29 February

17111 Views

sexual abuse

Exemplary damages for sexual abuse and trespass: when can you get them?

Recent claims for trespass, battery relating to sexual abuse and wrongful imprisonment well illustrate the discretionary issues to be weighed in award

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17 March

12367 Views

Personal Injury

Woolies check out clanger cashes out customer & changes food fall floor claims forever

Retail duopolist Woolworths was last week ordered by Australia’s High Court to let go the $580,000 injury compensation damages ruled owing in August

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17 March

13024 Views

Personal Injury

Irish brogue scores change to amazing rotten luck

A visiting overseas plumber serving out visa-mandated farm duties at a Mungindi cotton gin has been awarded $567,000 injury compensation damages after

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19 April

4856 Views

Personal Injury

Building owners escape responsibility on CBD glass shatter claim

The owners of one of Brisbane’s oldest high-rise office towers have escaped liability for facial scarring suffered by an intoxicated 29-year-old who

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20 April

12160 Views

Personal Injury

Suncorp smashed on time barrier in motorway flying debris suit

As Vanessa Morris was calmly driving along the Logan motorway,  building materials and engine parts began raining on her car, as if from nowhere. S

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29 May

8084 Views

Personal Injury

Painter prisoner in well timed lurch at puddle payment

The description of the daily routine of Wacol's correctional centre prisoner population in an April district court injury compensation award, may not

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30 May

5758 Views

Personal Injury

Likely lad creates hostel havoc: Civil Liability Act no bar to "battery" suit

An aggressive 24 yr old British tourist injured during an arrest in the Roma St backpacker precinct has recorded a compensation win against the employ

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31 May

15345 Views

Personal Injury

Court slams specialist’s secret video view backflip

A $1.28 million damages claim was rejected last week amid controversy over the extent to which video surveillance evidence contradicted a plaintiff's

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24 June

7239 Views

Personal Injury

Artisan survives war zones to lose $200k claim for co-worker race assault

Management at Couran Cove resort was excused for failing to act earlier to fire a lunatic tradesman who seriously injured his 60 yr old co-worker by

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25 June

4480 Views

Personal Injury

Legless lass chalks up litigation loss in "I’ll rip your head off" hotel confrontation

A 28 yr old would-be police officer, who broke her ankle by falling into an unguarded stairway void at South Brisbane’s Chalk Hotel in the dying hou

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26 June

4583 Views

Personal Injury

Golf pro’s prang: prize money dictates ‘paltry’ earnings loss

Outstanding deeds from elite athletes demand all their ducks rowed neatly and just a feather out of place can ruin a performance or even a promisi

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14 June

5775 Views

Personal Injury

Benevolent Bunnings

A  "technologically dumb" store clerk injured in a company-sponsored game of tunnel ball in August 2008, has been awarded $270,000 personal injury c

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25 July

56826 Views

Personal Injury

Small step for one man, a giant leap from rigs and their kind

It turns out that alighting from truck cabs and earthmoving machinery is indeed a hazardous affair, the sub

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