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Case notes on running a claim through the courts, from evidence to costs.
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Moreton Island boat too close, too fast: run-down diver wins $675k
It was a perfect Sunday in June 2008 when the pair sped from Scarborough across the calm waters of the bay, for a morning of spearfishing at Cape Moreton.
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Council argues immunity on $2.9 mil car barrier civil liability lawsuit
After reversing his car into a level two space of a hotel car park, Thomas Lee and his wife Michelle - on their way to dinner at a nearby restaurant - had second thoughts about whether it should be reversed back further.
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Dealer in winning $200k hand
Part of the work of a roulette dealer is to gather chips used by gamblers and sort them into stacks by colour. In 2004, Lidija Romig was a part-time roulette dealer at Brisbane’s Treasury Casino.
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G20 disruption details still withheld
With just six weeks to go before the start of G20 week, details of exactly what disruptions local businesses and residents can expect to endure are yet to be made public.
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Terror hysteria aside, police powers already rival Gestapo says judge
As terror hysteria - fuelled for all its worth by media and politicians - grips the nation, a Supreme Court judge has issued a terse rebuke of the misuse by police of “extraordinary” arrest and detention powers they already…
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Council Negligence: Loose stones road death, ‘roadworks’ warning insufficient
The husband of a driver killed in an August 2004 country road single-vehicle accident has sued the local council for council negligence by failing to erect signage warning of the loose gravel associated with road works.
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WorkCover Claim: Wrist injury onset 18 years after fall, time bar a problem
A millworker injured at a plant operated by the Mackay Sugar co-operative has sued the organisation for an injury sustained in September 1994 for which no witnesses or incident report could be located to verify the fact that the…
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Nominal Defendant v Bacon: Head-on collision in dust cloud, Who’s at fault?
Corrugations formed by frequent traffic on unsealed roads are a part of daily life in rural Australia.
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Does death become her? Solicitor wins on two week will delay
How urgently should a solicitor treat instructions for a new will from a frail but healthy and alert 94-yr-old, living independently with the assistance of a carer?
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Airborne and out of control, how fast is safe on flooded highway?
Update — 17 April 2015: The High Court of Australia refused Mr Tinworth's application for special leave to appeal. The Court of Appeal decision explained below is final.
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Litigators to take aim at controllers and regulators over MH-17 flightpath
The shooting down of an MAS Boeing 777 passenger jet in July in European airspace will bring litigation against some unlikely protagonists.
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Court considers dementia will to stop daughter-in-law gain
Jim Jones made application to the Supreme Court for the alteration of his wife’s will to prevent their daughter-in-law gaining interest in her $4.5 million property in Smith Street Mackay in the divorce proceedings against their…
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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