The law and the courts
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Case notes on running a claim through the courts, from evidence to costs.
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UK tourists fail to Captain Cook, campervan U-turn splatters Sunday morning bikers
They arrived in Melbourne from a bitterly cold UK winter just two weeks earlier and were making their way north along the coast basking in Queensland’s December warmth.
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Shower injury wins compo for around-the-clock worker
A worker who slipped on the bathroom floor while rushing to answer his phone will receive injury compensation from his employer despite the accident happening at his home.
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Psychiatric damages big part of $1 mil award when family told of air crash death
The spouse and children of a vegetation officer killed on the job with a regional shire council have won substantial post-traumatic stress damages for the way they were told of the air crash that took his life.
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Telstra on hook for $16 mil helicopter wire-strike injury
In April 2006 two Endeavour Energy employees were conducting an aerial inspection of power lines and poles near Wiseman’s Ferry north of Sydney in a helicopter supplied – with crew – by Coff’s Harbour based Precision Helicopters.
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Good Friday "Christmas" party a Noosa River tragedy
The husband of a woman tragically killed when diving from the beach at Noosa Woods into the river on a Good Friday “Christmas” party has failed in his bid to recover workers’ compensation in respect of his deceased wife’s death.
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Woolies pinged on “unlawful” hold out to injured worker’s $750k lawsuit
A night-filler who injured his back from continuous awkward motions required of his role over the entire period of employment has succeeded in striking out a retail giant’s argument that may have sunk his claim.
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‘That’s not a knife’: accidental stabbing not employer’s fault
An earthmoving contractor has been sued for a stabbing wound from the owner’s son to a co-worker at a Redbank Plains construction site during a lunch break.
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From killing field to slaughter house: refugee worker in abattoir compo win
An Afghan refugee employed as a labourer on the process line at a Teys Bros meatworks has been compelled to seek court orders to permit his safety consultant to inspect the abattoir to compile a report as to the safety…
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High speed country road gravel smash nets downed rider $615k
When Mark James set off on his motorcycle on a sunny Sunday morning in November 2011 for Gladstone, he had no idea that a few hours hence his life would be forever changed.
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Sex accusation by Txt brings $100k defamation ask
The brother of two women with whom he was accused in Txts sent in March 2014 of engaging in consensual and non-consensual sex, has sued the sender for damages he argued should take into account that to be called a paedophile "in…
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Claimant sues specialist over “conspiratorial, shambolic” medical report
A former Brisbane airport baggage inspector who contested his dismissal by the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service, has sued a forensic psychiatrist whose medical report was relied on by the employer in defending harassment…
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Fall from cliff top at night to beach below not of council’s doing
A long weekend beach getaway to celebrate the 40th birthdays of two of the merrymakers ended in tragedy at Stradbroke Island’s Point Lookout.
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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