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Early in the morning on 25 November 2014 Glenn Garside was riding his motorcycle along Gregory Highway – at approximately 100kph. He was travelling behind a bus, which was travelling behind a truck. When he felt it was safe to, Mr Garfield moved into the centre of the road so he could overtake the bus […]
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Case: Corowa v Winner & Anor [2019] QDC 135 Background On the 14 September 2009 Brenton Winner deliberately drove his vehicle onto the footpath and over the right foot of Isaiah Corowa in order to protect his fiancée and grandmother from being physically and verbally attacked. Corowa was taken to hospital and suffered four separate […]
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Practical Tips for Proving Fault in a Motor Vehicle Accident I once worked for nearly four years at an Outside School Hours Care. The age of the children under our care ranged from Prep to Grade 6, and I must say it was a lot of fun. I especially enjoyed the opportunity to spend my […]
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At the age of 19 years old, as a young driver on my Provisional (P-Plate) License, I was involved in my first car accident. I was stopped at a red light when the car behind me, to put it simply – failed to stop. Following the collision, we both drove slowly to a clear space […]
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Lessons from Gregory v Commissioner of Police Facts of the Cycling Accident On 13 June 2017, Mr Paul Gregory turned right at an intersection controlled by traffic lights and hit a cyclist, Mr Shane Crawford who was travelling along one of the oncoming lanes. Mr Gregory drove away and did not stop to exchange details […]
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On 17 February 2013 at about 7:00pm, the late Byron Williams was speeding and intoxicated with amphetamines and cannabis when his car smashed into a tree. Former senior constable David Paul Caffrey, who worked as a full time member of the Queensland Police Service, attended the wreckage and attempted to keep the driver alive with […]
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This case was an appeal against a decision of the Worker’s Compensation Regulator. Ms Glass was a mathematics and aquatic studies teacher to secondary students at Xavier Catholic College in Hervey Bay. On the 24th November 2016 she was on an end-of-year-school excursion when she injured her shoulder while swinging on a rope at the […]
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George v Morgan & Anor [2016] QDC 52 is a recent District Court of Queensland case that highlights the precarious nature of personal injury claims in slow moving vehicle accidents, particularly where medical evidence is lacking. The plaintiff was wholly unsuccessful in her claim. The case illustrates the need for potential plaintiffs to seek sound legal […]
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Oxenham v Protector Aluminium P/L [2016] QDC 312 is a recent decision of the District Court of Queensland that illustrates that even where a duty is owed by an employer to take reasonable care not to expose an employee to unnecessary risks of injury, a Plaintiff must actually prove factual causation that such breach of […]
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