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• Holiday & travel law

  Cruise passenger bill of rights: just PR?

  The Cruise Lines International Association has announced the adoption by the industry of a passenger bill of rights that guarantees the "safety, comfort and care" of guests.

  15 June 2013
• Holiday & travel law

  New cruise ship injury laws on horizon: "Grandeur" set ablaze

  As leisure cruising becomes a major segment of the Australian travel market with 53 cruise ships having a daily passenger capacity of 54,000 souls plying Australian waters and visiting 31 ports this year, a timely reminder of the…

  28 May 2013
• Aviation law

  Expert roll call for airport cycle smash

  A self-employed cyclist sustained serious injuries when he crashed into the back of a taxi that suddenly pulled in front of him and stopped, on Airport Drive in Brisbane in July 2007.

  29 December 2012
• Aviation law

  Messy claim unearths gems for future air passenger injury arguments

  The District Court last week ruled that Queensland's Personal Injuries Proceedings Act pre-court requirements do not apply to international air carriage claims because the relevant federal legislation "otherwise provides…a…

  28 December 2012
• Aviation law

  Lockhart families win catch value: damages capped by out-of-date limits

  A final chapter in the resolution of the May 2005 Lockhart River air disaster unfolded in the Supreme Court in October when five Cape York families were awarded dependency damages against the insurer of the now-defunct airline.

  30 October 2012
• Aviation law

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

  Aircraft passengers can claim higher injury compensation throughout Australia but psychological injuries from aviation accidents have been restricted. Australia aviation lawyer.

  23 August 2012
• Holiday & travel law

  River boat accident yields small compensation pickings for boardroom mogul

  Corporate high-flyers are rare protagonists in injury compensation brawls.

  31 July 2012
• Holiday & travel law

  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 impaled on a discarded hypodermic syringe.

  26 July 2012
• Holiday & travel law

  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 the court rejected an orthopaedic surgeon’s “blunt” and “unreasonable” views.

  17 March 2012
• Aviation law

  Lockhart crash settlement one of final chapters in tragedy

  This week saw the resolution of another passenger claim arising out of the May 2005 Transair Metroliner crash in which 15 occupants were killed when it smashed into mountains on approach to Lockhart River airstrip in far North…

  23 February 2011
• Aviation law

  Taxi cab confession costly: Client’s claim not filed because of poor prospects

  It began in the taxi feeder rank at Brisbane airport in October 2002 when the driver was enjoying a lull and was eating a banana at the time he stepped into a hole in the kerb and injured his right shoulder.

  5 February 2011
• Holiday & travel law

  ‘Leisurely pace’ of litigation fails to sink tourist’s Whitsunday boat accident claim

  The District Court in Brisbane was asked this month* to absolve a multitude of a statutory and procedural non-compliances relating to a personal injury claim for a U.K.

  21 November 2010

Case notes explain decisions in other people’s cases. They are general information, not legal advice, and every claim turns on its own facts.