Personal Injuries Proceedings Act

• Litigation & law practice

  Patient strikes out on $1 mil make-over lawsuit: DIY claim ‘replete’ with errors

  A hernia repair patient who claims to have been persuaded at the eleventh hour – "after she had been prepped for theatre" - to undergo a facelift instead, has failed in her bid for compensation for a “sadly damaged face” that…

  30 August 2012
• Litigation & law practice

  Privilege prevails over staff expert records: defendants to gain forensic advantage

  Breast Screen Queensland was last week protected by a Supreme Court ruling from disclosing internal communications pertaining to the negligent diagnosis claim of a Cairns patient who underwent screening in 2007 and 2009.

  24 July 2011

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