Archive for the 'Negligence' Category

HCA: DDT & appeal of Booth – causation sufficient

Friday, December 16th, 2011

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DDT: cementing the causation hurdles in lung cancer/asbestos claims

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

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DDT: Low exposure threshold for mesothelioma

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

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Nominal Defendant: reasonableness and counsel’s advices

Monday, December 5th, 2011

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Pac-Fair slurpee fall: plaintiff proves cleaning rotation missed, concealing prior injury excused

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

Lowe v AMP Capital Investors Ltd & Ors [2011] QDC 267 Eve Lowe’s tumble on the floor surface remains of a red Slushee outside the Australia Post store at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre – while calamitous for her and her wellbeing – provides an instructive tutorial on the necessary ingredients for every successful shopping centre [...]

Road rage traffic dodger collected on Logan Rd: driver targets home insurer for $660k foot chase death

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Kalimnios v Ewen [2011] QDC 264 On 27 August 2004 Karla Kalimnios was driving home along Logan Road Upper Mount Gravatt in peak hour evening traffic when knife-wielding Jason Ewen – who had gone on foot to retaliate against another driver – ran into the path of her car. Read more… Reproduced with the permission [...]

NSW breach of duty and causation cases 2010 & 2011

Monday, November 21st, 2011

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Class actions (Vioxx): causation & epidemiological evidence

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

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Statutory recovery & contribution between tortfeasors

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

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WCRA: Lifting a box of photocopy paper injury not interfered with

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

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David Cormack, Barrister