A medical assessment served under the Wrongs Act by a patient of Dr Daniel Lanzer needed to come to the attention of the surgeon himself, not just his solicitors, despite the lawyers being authorised to receive other documents in the case, an appeals court has found.
A tribunal has awarded a tunneller who worked on major projects like the Lane Cove tunnel project a record $2.4 for dust-related injury, describing the safety breaches of Bennett’s employers over his 30-year career as “egregious”.
Slater & Gordon has lost its bid to summarily dismiss a negligence suit by a former human resources executive who claims she was wrongfully accused of sending a firm-wide email containing sensitive salary data.
The AFL has won its bid to strike out occupational health and safety claims from a class action over its concussion management practices.
The Geelong Football Club has launched a bid to summarily dismiss or strike out claims alleging breaches of occupational health and safety regulations in a concussion class action against the AFL.
The High Court won’t weigh in on a case over strip searches of Qatar Airways passengers, following a mixed ruling that revived claims against the airline but found Qatar’s aviation authority could not be sued.
Engineering firm GHD Australia, which has recently been joined to a class action over a bus crash in NSW’s Hunter Valley that killed 10 passengers, has flagged bringing its own cross-claims.
A class action by inmates in the Dillwynia Women’ s Correctional Centre who were allegedly sexually assaulted by a corrections officer can send a notice encouraging — but not requiring — group members to sign up.
The applicants in a case over strip searches conducted of female passengers on a Qatar Airways flight at Doha Airport want the airline to produce any communications with other planes, and to do so by month’s end.
A judge has ordered the NSW government to pay $93,000 in damages to the lead plaintiff in a class action over police strip searches at music festivals, finding a “conspicuous deficiency” in the training of officers.