Carey-Schofield v Hays & Civeo [2024] QSC 60
Keywords: Assessment of damages in tort, duty of care, GENERALLY, how should the damages be apportioned…
22 April 2024
Tags: torts
Patchett v Nichols and Nichols [2024] QDC 45
Keywords: admissibility, Assault, battery, evidence, Hearsay, Interference with the person, Joint wrongdoers, Liability-only trial, Multiple wrongdoers,…
08 April 2024
Lee v The Council of the City of Sydney [2024] NSWDC 69
Keywords: negligence, Protection for road authorities, s 45 Civil Liability Act, s 45A Special Statutory Power,…
15 March 2024
Hunt v ALDI Foods Pty Limited trading as ALDI [2024] QDC 15
Keywords: causation, negligence, scope of duty, standard of care, torts, where the plaintiff employed by the…
20 February 2024
Griffin v Brisbane City Council [2023] QDC 229
Keywords: breach of duty, defendant on notice, duty of care, foreseeability, lack of support, negligence, psychiatric…
08 December 2023
Glavinic v Commonwealth [2023] ACTSC 361
Keywords: Battery and Wrongful Imprisonment, nervous shock, police powers, torts, Trespass
01 December 2023
Eden v Jamieson & Anor [2023] QSC 240
Keywords: contributory negligence, discount for contingencies, future economic loss, negligence, pedestrian injury, torts
02 November 2023
Stradford (a pseudonym) v Judge Vasta [2023] FCA 1020
Keywords: Abuse of process, aggravated and exemplary damages, damages for psychiatric injury, false imprisonment, judicial immunity,…
30 August 2023
Sanders v Mount Isa Mines Limited & Ors [2023] QSC 188
Keywords: Damages and causation, Duty of Care: Existence, Factors Determining Existence of Duty, negligence, scope of…
25 August 2023
State of New South Wales v Spedding [2023] NSWCA 180
Keywords: absence of reasonable and probable cause, collateral abuse of power, Damages, malicious prosecution, misfeasance in…
09 August 2023
Doerr v Gardiner [2023] QCA 160
Keywords: assault and battery, elements to prove, principles for assessment of loss of earning capacity and…
08 August 2023
CCIG Investments Pty Ltd -v- Aaron Schokman [2023] HCA 21
Keywords: negligence, torts, vicarious liability, Where appellant employer of respondent, Where appellant required respondent to live…
02 August 2023
Graham Cleary v Health Care Corporation Pty Ltd t/as Wollongong Private Hospital [2023] NSWDC 263
Keywords: alleged breach of duty of care by the defendant relating to the transfer of the…
21 July 2023
Townsville City Council v Hodges [2023] QCA 136
Keywords: appellant argues the primary judge erred in finding the inspections of the park performed by…
11 July 2023
Ballina Shire Council v Moore [2023] NSWCA 155
Keywords: breach of duty, deterrence, failure to remove bollard, identifying risk of harm, negligence, pedestrians and…
06 July 2023
Trinet Ruth Wilson v Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service [2023] QSC 135
Keywords: assessment of damages, negligence, scope of duty and subsequent breach, standard of care, torts
23 June 2023