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28 February

4522 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

16915 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

12262 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

12895 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

4750 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

12046 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

7951 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

5628 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

15175 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

7113 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

4367 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

4478 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

5663 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

56691 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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26 July

17826 Views

Personal Injury

Call girls faultless in city hotel room needle stick injury

A South Australian tourist has failed to cast “an aura of prostitution and drug use” over a Spring Hill apartment complex where her hand was impal

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27 July

5946 Views

Personal Injury

Prisoner wins ‘battery’ damages for over-the-top DNA sampling

A self-represented Lotus Glen prisoner has won a ten year battle against the state, with compensation for assault for overly aggressive conduct by cor

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31 July

16169 Views

Law practice

River 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

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19 August

9880 Views

Personal Injury

Facebook posts and life-quality choice diminish ‘Indiana Jones’ head-on injury deficit claim

The lifestyle preference of a 32 yr-old travel industry sales manager not to "chase the highest income she can", has counted against her in the assess

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23 August

12988 Views

Litigation & Law Practice

Domestic airline pax compo trade-off: more for mutilation, less for mental anguish

A Bill to alter domestic air passenger injury compensation rights was yesterday introduced to Federal Parliament by transport minister Anthony Albanes

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30 August

6543 Views

Personal Injury

Patient strikes out on $1 mil make-over lawsuit: DIY claim ‘replete’ with errors

A hernia repair patient who claims to have been persuaded at the eleventh hour – "after she had been prepped for theatre" - to undergo a facelift in

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