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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
Solicitor sues his lawyer, jet ski injury compensation damages not enough
Update — 16 December 2016: The Queensland Court of Appeal allowed Mr Rogers' appeal. It set aside the Supreme Court's orders, struck out only some paragraphs of his claim and gave him leave to file an amended claim.
- Litigation & law practice
Cleaner assaulted in early am car park hook up; Big Mac at fault?
A cleaner who claimed to have been attacked “by eight 20-yr-olds” in the car park of a 24 hour McDonald’s in the early hours of the morning in January 2008 has sued the restaurant and his employer for exposing him to the violent…
- Litigation & law practice
Palm Island pair win violent arrest damages, police ‘shock & awe’ raid unlawful
A further chapter in the extraordinary consequences flowing from the violent death of Cameron Doomadgee at the Palm Island police compound in November 2004 has closed after the state’s highest court awarded substantial…
- Litigation & law practice
Electrician escapes blame on $820k house inferno; meter, not wiring the cause
Justin and Melissa Anderson peacefully rang in this New Year at Barrington Tops relishing the isolation and absence of phone contact.
- Litigation & law practice
Candyman nanny left with sour taste over claim $$
Gold Coast’s “Candyman” - the millionaire host to bevies of busty beauties at his luxury waterfront party pad - has notched up a win over his former nanny for implying on national television he was an unfit parent.
- Litigation & law practice
‘One day wrongfully in jail is one day too many’: $2.3 mil for 6 years locked away
Detective Thomas’ intense animosity towards Rosanne Beckett dated from 1983 when her Taree delicatessen erupted in flames.
- Litigation & law practice
Boat thrill rider sprayed on disc thump
The Paradise Point outing in April 2010 was intended to give all staff who rolled up the thrill of an authentic jet boat ride on the Southport Broadwater, 14 passengers at a time.
- Litigation & law practice
Council worker crushed on $630k crack at never-before-seen machinery failure
The tipper was one of many belonging to the Gold Coast City Council vast fleet fitted with a hydraulic tray and a cab-controlled tailgate that swung on a horizontal axis to allow a load to be discharged underneath.
- Litigation & law practice
Stonewalling earthmover must make tracks to shift mountain of evidence
A three-month stint of fast-paced repetitive copying, collating, hole-punching and binding of thousands of papers to compile training manuals for customers’ employees resulted in a chronic shoulder condition for the junior office…
- Litigation & law practice
Disc degeneration proved trauma-induced but selfie-inflicted damage sinks eco loss claim
A Rockhampton compensation claimant has convinced a court his degenerative disc condition – commonly thought to be age-related – was as a direct result of a multi-vehicle collision on the Bruce Highway near Calliope in which he…
- Litigation & law practice
No helmet, no problem in $2.2 mil skateboard brain injury compensation award
How much responsibility should be allocated to a 12-yr-old boy who fell from his skateboard while hitching a ride behind a car?
- Litigation & law practice
Insurer hits back at $390k home upkeep damages for neighbour’s pathway fall
In steady rain and fading light Sue-Anne Sanig farewelled her 90-yr-old neighbour to descend – umbrella in hand – a garden path and trudge 500m along the road below to her front door.
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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