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• Litigation & law practice

  Conflict is normal, screaming at overworked staff is not. Assistant wins $436k compo

  A nursing home administration assistant has won a long-running compensation battle against the TriCare organisation for persistent “harassment” - that regularly reduced her to tremors and tears - dished out by her supervisor.

  26 June 2016
• Litigation & law practice

  A literary offence: teacher sues school over author’s account of heroine’s sex life

  A “badly written” account of the goings-on at an imaginary Queensland junior school is alleged to have been based on real dramas in the private lives of staff at an outer Brisbane primary institution, fed to the author by one of…

  25 April 2015
• Litigation & law practice

  Workcover bruised on 1, 2, 3 self-defence training technique, psych nurse collects

  Liability of instructor in self-defence training can be mitigated by teaching the different parts of a technique separately before they are combined.

  27 February 2014
• Litigation & law practice

  Legless lass chalks up litigation loss in "I’ll rip your head off" hotel confrontation

  A 28 yr old would-be police officer, who broke her ankle by falling into an unguarded stairway void at South Brisbane’s Chalk Hotel in the dying hours of an alcohol-fuelled year-end celebration in December 2007, has failed in an…

  25 June 2012
• Litigation & law practice

  Artisan survives war zones to lose $200k claim for co-worker race assault

  Management at Couran Cove resort was excused for failing to act earlier to fire a lunatic tradesman who seriously injured his 60 yr old co-worker by beating him with a wooden stake, before chasing him down in a van.

  24 June 2012
• Litigation & law practice

  Court excuses car owner from $200k liability because parent there to make joyride call

  After Christmas day lunch in 2005, 17-year-old learner driver Debbie-Jo Simpson got permission to take a farm vehicle for a drive with her brother Sam.

  18 October 2011

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