intoxication

• Litigation & law practice

  Passenger sues for wrongful detention & excessive force in international airport bust up

  Geoff Barker had “probably about 7 rums” in a Port Moresby bar before arrival at the airport to board the Air Niugini flight PX025 to Brisbane in November 2011.

  25 February 2017
• 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.

  25 May 2016Queensland Court of Appeal
• Litigation & law practice

  Fall from cliff top at night to beach below not of council’s doing

  A long weekend beach getaway to celebrate the 40th birthdays of two of the merrymakers ended in tragedy at Stradbroke Island’s Point Lookout.

  27 May 2015

• Dancer in self-represented CTP win after drunk Story Bridge bike stack

  A late-night reveller was the victim of her own ill-judgment when she accepted a ride on the back of a motor-cycle from Brisbane's Sofitel lobby bar before being spilled onto the bitumen at the southbound entrance to Brisbane’s…

  27 May 2013
• 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

  Insurer intoxicated after pedestrian hit on appeal: take a further 20% off

  Allianz failed to overturn a $160,000 running down verdict on the grounds the trial judge had engaged in unsupported speculation by relying on her “own experience in life” to conclude that its insured driver had failed to keep a…

  24 July 2011
• Litigation & law practice

  No witnesses, No recollection & intoxicated: Ambulance records only evidence of causation: Plaintiff wins $200,000 for fall into drain

  In an encouraging case for plaintiffs, the New South Wales Court of Appeal * has recently shown that even an absence of recollection, eye-witnesses and sobriety may still lead to substantial damages.

  30 August 2010New South Wales Court of Appeal

Case notes explain decisions in other people’s cases. They are general information, not legal advice, and every claim turns on its own facts.