trade practices act

• 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.

  26 July 2012
• Litigation & law practice

  Solicitor hoisted on own petard: oily rag strategy no excuse after 4.5 year lapse

  No step taken in his client's contract claim for more than four and a half years proved fatal in an application made by a Toowoomba solicitor for leave to proceed under UCPR rule 389. Proceedings commenced in November 2005.

  6 February 2011
• Litigation & law practice

  Fitness training not sport: Trainers sweat $80k for broken ankle; escape crunch for disc prolapse

  Courts in Queensland and New South Wales have recently ruled on the liability of personal trainers for injuries sustained by their clients.

  4 August 2010

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