The law and the courts
Litigation & law practicePage 20
Case notes on running a claim through the courts, from evidence to costs.
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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 instead, has failed in her bid for compensation for a “sadly damaged face” that…
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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.
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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 assessment of accident-related income loss from a fatal December 2009 highway…
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River boat accident yields small compensation pickings for boardroom mogul
Corporate high-flyers are rare protagonists in injury compensation brawls.
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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 corrective service officers in forcing hair extraction, as part of a legislated…
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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.
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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 subject of well-documented research and its own body of science.
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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 promising career.
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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 hours of an alcohol-fuelled year-end celebration in December 2007, has failed in an…
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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 beating him with a wooden stake, before chasing him down in a van.
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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 compensation following a two-day trial in Brisbane.
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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 testimony as to the seriousness of his motor accident-related neck and back…
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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