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Case notes tagged “civil liability”.
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- Litigation & law practice
Cycling not inherently dangerous: rider defeats council on Shorncliffe roadworks wreck
The Brisbane City Council has failed in its Civil Liability Act bid to hold out a fitness rider from injury damages after he was thrown from his bike on encountering unfinished bitumen resurfacing on a suburban bayside…
- Litigation & law practice
State files appeal in Fraser Island tetraplegia claim
A spinal injury compensation victory for an Irish tourist arising from an excursion to an inland Fraser Island lake in September 2007 is a subject of an appeal lodged by the state of Queensland against the April ruling that sees…
- Litigation & law practice
Guest up $500k on appeal for "filthy" hotel needle stick injury
The Court of Appeal today reversed a judgment that last year saw a South Australian tourist fail in a lawsuit against Bonapartes Serviced Apartments in Spring Hill in which she claimed damages as a result of her hand being…
- Litigation & law practice
Messy claim unearths gems for future air passenger injury arguments
The District Court last week ruled that Queensland's Personal Injuries Proceedings Act pre-court requirements do not apply to international air carriage claims because the relevant federal legislation "otherwise provides…a…
- Litigation & law practice
Hailers at peril with traffic stopping moves
An inebriated football fan - who baulked at paying the cover charge for entry to an Underwood nightclub - has won $70,000 in damages for injuries received when struck by a maxi-cab he had attempted to stop outside the venue in…
- 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…
- Legal profession
River boat accident yields small compensation pickings for boardroom mogul
Corporate high-flyers are rare protagonists in injury compensation brawls.
- Litigation & law practice
Prisoner wins ‘battery’ damages for over-the-top DNA sampling
A self-represented Lotus Glen prisoner has won a ten year battle against the state, with compensation for assault for overly aggressive conduct by corrective service officers in forcing hair extraction, as part of a legislated…
- Litigation & law practice
Call girls faultless in city hotel room needle stick injury
A South Australian tourist has failed to cast “an aura of prostitution and drug use” over a Spring Hill apartment complex where her hand was impaled on a discarded hypodermic syringe.
- Litigation & law practice
Golf pro’s prang: prize money dictates ‘paltry’ earnings loss
Outstanding deeds from elite athletes demand all their ducks rowed neatly and just a feather out of place can ruin a performance or even a promising career.
- 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…
- Litigation & law practice
Likely lad creates hostel havoc: Civil Liability Act no bar to "battery" suit
An aggressive 24 yr old British tourist injured during an arrest in the Roma St backpacker precinct has recorded a compensation win against the employer of an over zealous security guard but was penalised in damages for his "poor…
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