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

As leisure cruising becomes a major segment of the Australian travel market with 53 cruise ships having a daily passenger capacity of 54,000 souls plying Australian waters and visiting 31 (more…)

The Supreme Court has chided a plaintiff’s lawyers during a seven day personal injury trial, for “deliberately not obtaining a signed statement” from their client to gain a forensic advantage by preventing (more…)

A 28-year-old first year apprentice electrician who was “roughing in” power cables to a Palm Beach apartment building in June 2008 was following a workaround (more…)

The Court of Appeal today reversed a judgment that last year saw a South Australian tourist fail in a lawsuit against Bonapartes Serviced Apartments in Spring Hill in which she claimed (more…)

Woolworths took no umbrage at a compensation claim arising out of the conduct of the butchery at its Ayr supermarket until it was made clear that the event for which damages (more…)

During the course of a statutory compensation process for a tennis elbow inury arising in the course of host employment over a period of six months in 2007 at Vinidex on Townsville’s outskirts, WorkCover personnel surmised (more…)

The extent of injury to a Mackay medical receptionist whose Holden Astra was wiped out by an oncoming vehicle that turned right through an intersection across her path (more…)

A restaurant patron injured when his chair collapsed mid-meal in January 2009, was last week stripped of the right to sue Toowoomba’s legendary Weis restaurant over an out-of-time lawsuit. (more…)

The presentation is familiar enough.

A labourer feels a twinge deep in his back after a heavy or awkward lift or pull but rather than report it (more…)

Today is one of fond remembrance for the citizens of Brisbane’s northern bayside of their favourite adopted sons, the Bee Gees, in whose honour a bronze sculpture will be unveiled (more…)