dependency claim

• Litigation & law practice

  Unconventional relationship equally a ‘marriage’ for dependency rules

  Queensland's highest court has been asked to decide the essential elements of a de facto partnership and whether the male partner of a woman who died in a motor accident in June 2007, could recover dependency damages as a result…

  16 April 2014
• Litigation & law practice

  Lockhart families win catch value: damages capped by out-of-date limits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

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