In a historic High Court decision, a Queensland man who suffered catastrophic injuries as a result of a hospital’s negligence has won his bid for damages that allows him to receive medical care at home.
ASIC has escaped an individual insolvency practitioner’s bid for indemnity costs in its failed case alleging illegal phoenix activity, with a judge finding the regulator did not unreasonably reject a settlement offer that would have netted it “a considerably better result” than it won at trial.
An appeals court has found that barrister’s fees are not excluded as a recoverable outlay under worker’s compensation regulations.
The corporate regulator has failed in its case targeting an individual insolvency practitioner for alleged illegal phoenix activity.