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

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 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…)

Prisoner John Coffey was rewarded just prior to Christmas, with the Court of Appeal upping the damages the State must pay him as a result from over-aggressive prison treatment more than 10 years earlier. (more…)

The only description of a vehicle at fault for a motorcyclist brought down as he rounded a bend to join the Pacific Highway at Coomera was that is was a big cement truck. (more…)

The dockworkers at Brisbane’s Cairncross slipway were under some pressure to complete routine hull maintenance, during the Sun-Princess’ two day docking (more…)

A final chapter in the resolution of the May 2005 Lockhart River air disaster unfolded in the Supreme Court in October, when five Cape York families were awarded dependency damages against (more…)

The insurer for an unidentified utility, unexpectedly stopped in the “slip lane”of the M1 Nerang-Broadbeach Rd exit, will pay $112k in injury compensation damages for a swerve-to-avoid accident (more…)