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  Workshop’s system of work hazard not of landlord’s making

  The NSW Court of Appeal explains why a commercial landlord's duty to repair a defective ramp did not make it liable for a worker's manual-handling injury.

  6 July 2026NSW Court of Appeal
• Litigation & law practice

  Employer’s limitation prejudice ruled relevant to only part of claim

  Retail giant Coles has failed in an appeal bid to overrule an extension that allows a worker’s injury compensation claim dating from 2005, to proceed to trial.

  6 August 2015
• Litigation & law practice

  Mixed messages on safety hands pig worker big win for knife slash

  A Sarina slaughterman who avoided the use of a protective steel mesh glove because it slowed his work rate, has secured substantial damages as a result of a kill floor accident in August 2010.

  28 September 2013
• Litigation & law practice

  Tough crowd: improv falls flat on appeal court audience

  The use of razor-sharp off-cuts as a workaround to protect electrical insulation during the construction of a Palm Beach condo development was a reasonable building technique for which an electrical contractor employer bore no…

  25 September 2013
• Litigation & law practice

  Court choice forces lower damages payout for injured farm labourer

  Compensation damages to be paid by American nut conglomerate Hancock Agricultural have been reduced to fit the District Court jurisdictional limit after the court ruled it could not award the full sum assessed arising from the…

  28 June 2013

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