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Australia - June 13 2012
In our previous issue of Insurable Interest we reported on a recent decision of the Victoria Supreme Court arising from the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009.
Australia - June 13 2012
In Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre the High Court held that occupiers of land have no duty to prevent harm to somebody lawfully on the land from the criminal behaviour of a third party.
Australia - March 20 2012
In Victoria the Wrongs Act 1958 establishes the procedure for determining whether an injured claimant satisfies the ‘significant injury’ threshold for the recovery of non-economic loss damages (pain and suffering etc).
Australia - March 20 2012
The plaintiff suffered serious brain injury after a speed boat driven by her intoxicated partner at high speed collided with another boat.
Australia - September 25 2011
An optical technician working alone in an optometry shop was sexually assaulted by a 70-year-old customer who had followed her into a back room where the technician was adjusting the customer's spectacles.
