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Case notes on how claims are run and decided: damages, time limits, court procedure and the legal profession.
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- Litigation & law practice
Pilot inexperience a potential factor in budget airline crashes
The current generation of low-cost carriers has created a new market in air travel. Air Asia in Malaysia; Ryanair & Germanwings in Europe; and Jetstar & Tiger in Australia are classic examples.
- Litigation & law practice
Call centre trainee viciously attacked, Optus baulks at $3.8 mil labour hire compo
A call centre trainee - who came within an inch of being hurled from a fourth-floor balcony by another inductee - has argued his employer bore responsibility for the criminal act of which he was the victim.
- Litigation & law practice
Court orders Suncorp to pay up on airport worker’s $1.3 mil brain injury
A town planner responsible for managing landside infrastructure planning at Brisbane’s ever-expanding Kingsford Smith airport has defeated insurer Suncorp's refusal to pay income replacement compensation for a brain injury…
- Litigation & law practice
Experts clash on crane crash cause, worker’s case collapses
When an extraction unit at Boral’s Coffs Harbour asphalt plant failed in June 2006, it called in a crane crew to provide a safe platform for its maintenance staff to gain access near the roof.
- Litigation & law practice
‘Inattentive’ ferryman paid: Ferry Co to splash out $1 mil for sill(y) error
As elegant as are the ships of their fleet, ferries that ply the waters of Sydney Harbour are responsible for their fair share of maritime mishaps.
- Litigation & law practice
Police lose video evidence, inebriated tradie stumbles on $300k hotel payout
The loss by police of CCTV footage of the ejection of a patron from a Gladstone hotel was critical to a dispute over whether the pub should pay its customer damages for the shattered leg he sustained in the incident.
- Litigation & law practice
Island yacht charter lawsuit follows catamaran stairs fall
The failure to adequately brief an 80-yr-old charter yacht passenger before she boarded a vessel in Hamilton Island harbour is alleged to have caused the fractured spine that resulted from her fall down the galley stairs moments…
- Litigation & law practice
Dual career triathelete poses income loss quandry
A bicycle rider who was sprung from his cleats and thrown over his handlebars to bounce once before landing on his back in Boundary Street West End was fortunate not to have been struck by other vehicles while writhing on the…
- Litigation & law practice
Accident at sea: Carnival slammed on cruise injury lawsuit
Shipping giant Carnival Cruises has lost a court bid to prevent substantial damages being awarded to a cruise passenger for injuries as a result of part of its ship's ceiling collapsing over his head.
- Litigation & law practice
Lifetime future earnings damages for child witness to horror road death
A 12-year-old child survived an accident that killed her cousin when an out-of-control car mounted a kerb of the footpath on which they were strolling in suburban Kuraby in September 2011.
- Litigation & law practice
Dung dust illness not just coincidence, Bunnings to pay $700k in worker lawsuit
Hardware giant Bunnings has been ordered to part with $700k after an appeal court ruled against its refusal to pay compensation to a staff member who contracted a life-threatening condition from exposure to fertiliser dust at its…
- Litigation & law practice
Court awards $1.7 mil for services club brain injury assault
The tranquil Clarence River was the setting of an alcohol-fuelled rampage that felled 32-year-old Luke Warren in the late hours of an August Friday night in 2009.
Case notes explain decisions in other people’s cases. They are general information, not legal advice, and every claim turns on its own facts.
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