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Football player sues amateur league over on-field cardiac arrest
Sports 2024-10-23 11:29 pm By Andy Sidler

A former Keysborough Football club player has sued a Melbourne amateur league and team after he suffered a cardiac arrest on field after being repeatedly punched.

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Doctors can’t cut ACL claims from cosmetic surgery class action
Class Actions 2024-10-07 11:18 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has signed off on the eighth version of a class action against Sydney doctor Daniel Lanzer and several of his associates over allegedly negligent cosmetic surgeries.

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AFL concussion class action adds Geelong Football Club as defendant
Class Actions 2024-09-23 11:40 pm By Christine Caulfield

A class action on behalf of AFL players who allegedly suffered brain injuries has added plaintiff Max Rooke’s former club to the case, and plans to file a separate action against the remaining clubs.

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P&O Cruises settles litigation by holidaymakers over fatal bus collision
Personal injury 2024-09-09 11:58 pm By Christine Caulfield

P&O Cruises has resolved a group of personal injury cases by passengers who were seriously hurt in a bus collision in Vanuatu in 2016.

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Carnival denies Ruby Princess passenger had ‘horrible’ time on ill-fated cruise
Class Actions 2024-08-29 11:06 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Carnival PLC has denied that a passenger, whose husband contracted COVID-19 and had to be put on a ventilator, had a “horrible” time aboard the ill-fated Ruby Princess, in a class action’s appeal of a finding that she was only entitled to $4,000 in damages.

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Strip search class action attacks NSW’s ‘reasonable exercise of power’ defence
Class Actions 2024-08-19 3:24 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The lead plaintiff in a class action alleging NSW Police conducted illegal strip searches at music festivals has argued the state cannot rely on a defence that the searches were a reasonable exercise of power, after a recent judgment found the defence does not apply to unlawful arrests.

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Partner declined advice at key stage of Slater & Gordon share offload, court told
Trials 2024-07-09 10:24 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A law firm partner who alleges a Melbourne solicitor failed to properly advise him on a share sale agreement with Slater & Gordon in 2014 declined assistance before signing a term sheet that outlined he could not sell his shares in the firm for three years, a court has heard.

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DePuy class action member loses challenge to compensation, 12 years after settlement
Class Actions 2024-07-05 10:41 pm By Sam Matthews

A group member in a class action against Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy International has lost his bid to challenge his compensation determination 12 years after the case settled, with a judge finding that the independent counsel conducting the determination was not bound by the rules of procedural fairness.   

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Eighth attempt at cosmetic surgery class action still not good enough, court told
Class Actions 2024-06-27 10:08 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Sydney-based plastic surgeon Daniel Lanzer and several of his associates have objected to a class action’s eighth attempt at getting its claims over allegedly negligent cosmetic procedures right, saying the plaintiffs were engaged in a “continuing cycle of propagating versions” of their case.

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After class action tanks, pelvic mesh patient wins extra time to bring case against doctor
Personal injury 2024-05-09 3:21 pm By Andy Sidler

A court has granted an extension to the limitation period for a pelvic mesh patient suing her doctor for negligence, finding she did not have the knowledge to bring the case before the three-year window closed and that her claim for substantial damages for personal injury appeared “well founded”. 

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