exemplary damages

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  Bar assault claim results in $461k damages after court brawl

  The NSW Court of Appeal set aside $50,000 exemplary damages in an assault claim but otherwise dismissed the appeal, including challenges to liability and economic loss.

  14 August 2026NSW Court of Appeal
• Litigation & law practice

  Police botch harbour cruise taxi arrest, Gold Coast property developer gets $582k

  The story begins with a “quite intoxicated” Thomas Hamilton returning with two others to one of the partygoer's apartments in Sydney’s Rocks district in December 2009.

  27 October 2016
• Litigation & law practice

  ‘One day wrongfully in jail is one day too many’: $2.3 mil for 6 years locked away

  Detective Thomas’ intense animosity towards Rosanne Beckett dated from 1983 when her Taree delicatessen erupted in flames.

  24 September 2015
• 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.

  26 January 2013
• Sexual abuse

  Exemplary damages for sexual abuse and trespass: when can you get them?

  Recent claims for trespass, battery relating to sexual abuse and wrongful imprisonment well illustrate the discretionary issues to be weighed in awards for exotic damages and demonstrate how the CLA and PIPA do not apply to suits…

  29 February 2012

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