Take the law… Carter Capner Law's Queensland law digest

Corporate high-flyers are rare protagonists in injury compensation brawls.

So when Neil Balnaves sued after a 2002 head-on boat smash on a narrow bend (more…)

The December update of the REIQ residential land contract includes a half-hearted attempt to avert opportunistic terminations and forfeited deposits (more…)

The recent Supreme Court failure of a worker’s limitation extension application has highlighted once again how the statutory censorship regime that applies (more…)

Despite no satisfactory explanation for a 3 year delay, a 26 yr old plaintiff was this month allowed to proceed with a negligent “schoolyard (more…)

A Beenleigh solicitor was exonerated on Thursday after the Supreme Court decided he had not been responsible for any misappropriation of sale proceeds where he had accepted a deposit of title deeds (more…)

Workers have succeeded twice in two weeks against operators of Brisbane’s state-owned Southbank complex, defeating arguments that their only rights lay in workers’ (more…)

The Supreme Court has ruled on the claim of a 17-year-old student who sustained quadriplegia in September 2002 when his head struck the river bed during after-school play resulting in $5 million (more…)

Elizabeth Hargans was in year 11 at Somerville House school when she was injured in June 2004 when her then boyfriend drove into parked cars on a bottle shop run from a Graceville party they were attending. (more…)

Despite the last minute cancellation of the International Practice Section meeting – one of the major reasons for overseas members attending – a record turnout of nearly 1600 assured the success of last week’s winter Convention of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) in Miami. (more…)

If you or your family are planning a trip to New Zealand, be warned that as you step off the aircraft after landing, you are entering a legal-liability free zone.

In an experiment that began nearly 40 years ago, New Zealand decided (more…)