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battery
Case notes tagged “battery”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Feisty street evangelists score damages from police over wrongful arrests
Soapbox preachers “moved on” by police from a street corner in Nambour in September 2013 have claimed $120k for wrongful arrest and unlawful imprisonment.
- 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
Appeal court ups damages to mark disapproval of prisoner treatment
Prisoner John Coffey was rewarded just prior to Christmas, with the Court of Appeal upping the damages the State must pay him as a result of over-aggressive prison treatment more than 10 years earlier.
- Litigation & law practice
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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