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standard of care
Case notes tagged “standard of care”.
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- Litigation & law practice
No helmet, no problem in $2.2 mil skateboard brain injury compensation award
How much responsibility should be allocated to a 12-yr-old boy who fell from his skateboard while hitching a ride behind a car?
- Litigation & law practice
‘That’s not a knife’: accidental stabbing not employer’s fault
An earthmoving contractor has been sued for a stabbing wound from the owner’s son to a co-worker at a Redbank Plains construction site during a lunch break.
- Litigation & law practice
Employer defeats $300k claim, not liable for employee’s "own carelessness"
A 28-year-old first-year apprentice electrician who was “roughing in” power cables to a Palm Beach apartment building in June 2008 was following a workaround procedure to prevent the cables being forced up against sharp framing…
- Litigation & law practice
Living green: homeowners’ hazard prevention does not require pruning overgrown habitat
A kindly aunt - battered and bruised after she lost her footing on paved suburban garden steps - has failed in her injury compensation bid after a court decided “doing nothing” may sometimes be a reasonable response to a…
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