Queensland

Releasing guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence, the Queensland court system has this week cautioned judges against the use of AI tools for decision-making. 

A judge has set aside an adjudicator’s decision that the head contractor for a luxury Gold Coast tower owes fitout company Starline $1.5 million, finding the subcontractor had obtained a District Court judgment over the same project.

The funder behind a class action against the operator of Gladstone Port has bowed out after spending $30 million on the case, and is weighing proceedings to recover its sunk costs from the law firm that initially ran the litigation.

Brisbane Airport has lost its bid for information about government-owned Airservices' handling of PFAS at other airports, in their $690 million dispute over use of the chemicals at the Queensland airport.

A theme park manufacturer contracted by Dreamworld to undertake $5 million in works has won a challenge to an adjudicator’s decision that found a payment claim was invalid because the company didn't have a building licence.

Seqwater has revealed the contractors shortlisted to run in a two-horse race to win the contract to design and build the Wyaralong water treatment plant in south east Queensland.

In a historic High Court decision, a Queensland man who suffered catastrophic injuries as a result of a hospital's negligence has won his bid for damages that allows him to receive medical care at home.

Queensland is facing a class action investigation on behalf of detainees who were allegedly subjected to isolation, excessive force and other harmful conditions at five youth detention centres in the state. 

A judge has found that builder DT Infrastructure’s application for adjudication of a $22 million payment claim against Downer EDI was discharged by Downer paying off a smaller claim of less than $1 million, which was the only amount expressly referred to in DTI’s application.

A former Peabody Energy employee who claims she was sacked after raising safety concerns has lost her bid to restrain MinterEllison from representing her former employer.