Bird v DP (a pseudonym) [2024] HCA 41
Keywords: Intentional torts, sexual abuse whilst carrying out pastoral duties as representative of Diocese, torts, vicarious…
13 November 2024
Tags: torts
Gilmour v Blue Care [2024] QDC 189
Keywords: a risk assessment of the external site, criminal behaviour of a third party, duties undertaken…
01 November 2024
Byrnes v Burdekin Shire Council (2024) QDC
Keywords: negligence, occupier’s liability, PUBLIC PLACES, torts, where duty of care owed by the Defendant to…
15 October 2024
Melissa Reis v Emil Gayed [2024] NSWDC 269
Keywords: Alternate claim under Common Law based on operation of s 3B of Civil Liability Act,…
05 July 2024
Emde v State of New South Wales [2024] NSWDC 268
Keywords: Assault, battery, Defences, false imprisonment, Suspicion on reasonable grounds, torts, Trespass to the person, Whether…
28 June 2024
Akgun v Stockland Property Management Pty Ltd & Anor [2024] NSWDC 253
Keywords: ameliorating risk, causation, contributory negligence, Damages, obvious risk, reasonable precautions, risk of harm, slip and…
28 June 2024
Watt v Redman [2024] NSWSC 638
Keywords: aggravated and exemplary damages, battery, sexual assault, torts, Trespass to the person
31 May 2024
BYM v. Corporation of the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane (No 2) [2024] QSC 106
Keywords: allegations of child sexual abuse on school grounds, negligence, non-delegable duty, torts, vicarious liability, where…
30 May 2024
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
Warren BY His Litigation Guardian Direlle Farr v District Council of the Lower Eyre Peninsula (No 3)
Keywords: as occupier, liability for torts, local government, negligence, scope of duty and subsequent breach, torts
11 April 2024
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