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An Australian law firm is filing lawsuits for more than 20 passengers injured in a mid-air accident over the Indian Ocean in October 2008 on a Qantas flight from Singapore.
A Brisbane law firm claims that buyers and sellers of Queensland real estate face expenses of millions of dollars due to uncertainties arising from mandatory real estate forms issued by the Office of Fair Trading.
Recent overseas air incidents involving Australian passengers are tragic reminders of the importance of booking every leg of an international journey - especially side trips - from home, according to an aviation law expert.
The mid-air incident on Qantas flight 68 from Hong Kong on Monday highlights the urgent need to update Australia's air passenger regime, an aviation law expert said today.
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
The ban on lawyers speaking freely as proposed in Solicitors Conduct rule 19 is censorship with very dangerous consequences for the community. Read more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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