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foreseeability
Case notes tagged “foreseeability”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Painter suffers back injury after floored over mat confusion
A tradesman claiming compensation for a serious back injury left the identification of the hazardous door mat on which he had slipped to a comparison with stock on the shelves at Bunnings nearly two years after his fall.
- Litigation & law practice
Insurer files appeal against Chief Justice $650k step slip award
Update — 28 October 2016: The Queensland Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, so Ms Chandler's win at trial stands. The trial decision is explained below.
- Litigation & law practice
Appeal judges order Maccas must pay out to playground rescue hero
An appeal court has ruled in favour of a bystander who came to the help of a five-year-old boy who got stranded on top of playground equipment in a McDonald’s restaurant.
- Litigation & law practice
Experts clash on crane crash cause, worker’s case collapses
When an extraction unit at Boral’s Coffs Harbour asphalt plant failed in June 2006, it called in a crane crew to provide a safe platform for its maintenance staff to gain access near the roof.
- Litigation & law practice
Workbench injury a private affair – Court
The presence of metal cupboard handles beneath a collating desk created an obvious risk of a knee injury which his employer ought to have removed, according to 36 yr old call-centre worker Ian Larkin.
- Litigation & law practice
Wharfie put to ‘back-breaking’ work, employer not liable for back break
The dockworkers at Brisbane’s Cairncross slipway were under some pressure to complete routine hull maintenance, during the Sun-Princess’ two-day docking there in August 2009 in preparation for its next Pacific Ocean cruise.
- Litigation & law practice
Claimants hold $350k on appeal: paper lift training needed, how to keep safe from assault
Appeal court battles - intimidating even the most experienced lawyer – can gain a sense of the surreal for plaintiffs who win a contested trial, only to have an insurer turn around to have a second crack at knocking out their…
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