Qantas accident shows urgent need to end compensation treaty delay - 8 October 2008

The mid-air accident on Qantas flight 72 from Singapore yesterday highlights the urgent need to update Australia’s international passenger compensation regime, an aviation law expert said today. Read more...

Qantas incident shows urgent need to end compensation treaty delay - 1 August 2008

The near catastrophe on Qantas flight 30 last week highlights the urgent need to update Australia’s international passenger compensation regime, an aviation law specialist said today. Read more...

Stamp Duty changes today mostly for the worse - 1 July 2008

Stamp duty changes that came into force today and trumpeted in the recent Queensland budget as a big gain for home buyers will put most buyers in the property market in a worse or only a marginally better financial position, according to Queensland law firm Carter Capner Law. Read more...

Air crash victims may be denied adequate compensation - 17 September 2007

Australian victims of yesterday's Phuket airliner crash could receive inadequate compensation, an aviation law specialist said today.

Mr Peter Carter, of Carter Capner Law in Brisbane, said the Federal Government had placed the interests of insurance companies ahead of the victims and their families by failing to ratify a 1999 international treaty that raises compensation limits. Read more...

Lockhart air crash highlights GPS landing approach flaws - 3 September 2007

Carter Capner Law has called on federal authorities to act rapidly to improve GPS landing facilities for rural airports like Lockhart River, in North Queensland where one of the nation's worst air disasters occurred in May 2005. Read more...

Lawyer Censorship - 4 June 2007

The ban on lawyers speaking freely as proposed in Solicitors Conduct rule 19 is censorship with very dangerous consequences for the community. Read more...

First Patel compensation settlement announced - 17 January 2006

Lawyers representing over 150 former patients of Dr Jayant Patel today announced the first settlement for compensation under the Queensland Government's special Compensation process for victims of Dr Patel's treatment. Read more...

Victims call on Beattie to set up new commission - 2 September 2005

In the wake of the decision of the Supreme Court to shut down the Morris Commission of Inquiry, the Bundaberg Hospital Patients Support Group has called on the Premier to honour his undertaking to ensure that another Commission is set up to complete the Inquiry and report within the original Terms of Reference. Read more...

Patients Support Group deeply disappointed by Supreme Court decision - 1 September 2005

The Bundaberg Hospital Patients Support Group expressed deep disappointment at the decision of the Queensland Supreme Court to uphold applications by Dr Darren Keating and Mr Peter Leck that the Bundaberg Hospital Commission of Inquiry was biased against them. Read more...

Hamilton Island crash widow receives compensation - 30 May 2005

The American wife of one of the passengers killed when a Piper six-seater aircraft that lost power on take-off and crashed into a hill near the end of the Hamilton Island airstrip in September 2002 has finally been awarded compensation for the death of her husband. Read more...

Victims and lawyers call for fairer compensation laws - 18 May 2005

The Patients' Support Group and Lawyers representing patients and former patients of the Bundaberg and Hervey Bay Hospitals have called for the Queensland Government to repeal unfair laws restricting the rights of victims of Dr Jayant Patel and other doctors to compensation for botched medical treatment. Read more...

Approach design a key factor in Lockhart crash says lawyer/pilot - 12 May 2005

The design and choice of the landing approach being used when the Trans-Air Metro slammed into Iron Range on descent to land is a key factor in the tragedy according to an Aviation law expert. Read more...

Victims' lawyers welcome appointment of commissioner - 26 April 2005

Ian Brown, partner at Carter Capner lawyers which represents around 100 patients and former patients of the Bundaberg Hospital, today welcomed the appointment of Tony Morris QC as Commissioner of the enquiry into Queensland Health. Read more...

Lawyers call for victim compensation to be fast-tracked - 8 April 2005

Lawyers today called on the state government to fast track compensation for families affected by medical complications caused by the alleged incompetence of a former senior surgeon at the Bundaberg Hospital. Read more...

Carter Capner Lawyers and QCOSS educating the community on insurance - 14 September 2004

Carter Capner Lawyers have been travelling throughout Queensland over the past few months in an effort to ease the burden of the insurance crisis on the community by educating non-profits and community groups through free seminars on insurance. Read more...

Council punished for Mt Coot-tha bush fall - 15 April 2004

The District Court this morning awarded a Brisbane woman $42,000 damages for serious injuries she sustained when she slipped and fell traversing the dodgy 'path' along which the Council encouraged her to negotiate, to view an artificial Aboriginal rock painting at Slaughter Falls. Read more...

Media Alert - Laura LeGallo - Hamilton Island place crash - 18 March 2004

Please be advised, Carter Capner Lawyers is acting on behalf of Laura LeGallo, widow of Chris LeGallo, who was killed in a plane crash on Hamilton Island in September 2002. Read more...

The law demystified - 16 January 2004

Nearly 3,500 workplace injury compensation claims were lodged in 2003 with the WorkCover's Sunshine Coast office - one of the highest accident rates for any region outside Brisbane. Read more...