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civil liability
Case notes tagged “civil liability”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Overnight motel stop leads to kid’s pool tragedy
The family’s overnight stay at the Gympie Motel in February 1998 was unscheduled.
- Litigation & law practice
Ambulance man drops stretcher; Island stroke victim wins $560k
Lamb Island - population 450 - in southern Moreton Bay is officially a “town” within the Redland City.
- Litigation & law practice
Palm Island pair win violent arrest damages, police ‘shock & awe’ raid unlawful
A further chapter in the extraordinary consequences flowing from the violent death of Cameron Doomadgee at the Palm Island police compound in November 2004 has closed after the state’s highest court awarded substantial…
- Litigation & law practice
Insurer hits back at $390k home upkeep damages for neighbour’s pathway fall
In steady rain and fading light Sue-Anne Sanig farewelled her 90-yr-old neighbour to descend – umbrella in hand – a garden path and trudge 500m along the road below to her front door.
- 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.
- Car accident
RACQ mines childhood social media posts to block $$ to Mackay 4WD accident victim
RACQ admitted fault on the part of its insured driver for a Mackay intersection accident in January 2008 but fiercely contested the amount of compensation that was fair to be paid under the CTP insurance policy to the injured…
- Litigation & law practice
Court awards $1.7 mil for services club brain injury assault
The tranquil Clarence River was the setting of an alcohol-fuelled rampage that felled 32-year-old Luke Warren in the late hours of an August Friday night in 2009.
- Litigation & law practice
Council argues immunity on $2.9 mil car barrier civil liability lawsuit
After reversing his car into a level two space of a hotel car park, Thomas Lee and his wife Michelle - on their way to dinner at a nearby restaurant - had second thoughts about whether it should be reversed back further.
- Litigation & law practice
Bonfire horror engulfs 5, damages bill may exceed $1 mil
The full financial consequences of youthful exuberance have begun to emerge for a Stanthorpe man whose carelessness seriously injured five party guests, changing their lives forever.
- Litigation & law practice
Motorcyclist sues for stones on road, wins $1.3 million
Boral and a local council have been ordered to pay injury compensation for a motorcyclist losing control on loose stones washed onto road by heavy rain just days after they completed a roadway upgrade.
- Litigation & law practice
Is single-engine flying training a dangerous recreational activity?
Court rules single engine flying training is a dangerous recreational activity with an obvious risk of the plane not be able to land safely or the pilot might in an emergency situation, make an incorrect decision.
- Litigation & law practice
Unconventional relationship equally a ‘marriage’ for dependency rules
Queensland's highest court has been asked to decide the essential elements of a de facto partnership and whether the male partner of a woman who died in a motor accident in June 2007, could recover dependency damages as a result…
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