Barry Nilsson | Australia | 3 Oct 2017
Unsuccessful appeal by Football Club, League and local Council against finding of liability in negligence for failing to mark AFL boundary line an…
Barry Nilsson | Australia | 25 Aug 2017
Victorian farmer liable for $6.5M damages (plus just over $700,00 interest) for chemical spray drift damage to neighbour's vineyard…
Barry Nilsson | Australia | 4 Nov 2016
On 23 April 2005, a swimming teacher, Ms Balassone, injured her right knee after falling into a public swimming pool while conducting a swimming…
Corrs Chambers Westgarth | Australia | 18 Aug 2016
A recent decision by the Victorian Supreme Court of Appeal in Winky Pop Pty Ltd v Mobil Refining Australia Pty Ltd[2016] VSCA 187 has clarified the…
Cooper Grace Ward | Australia | 22 Jul 2016
In Homsi v Homsi [2016] VSC 354, the Supreme Court of Victoria was asked to consider a novel question: whether a driver who died in a motor vehicle…
Corrs Chambers Westgarth | Australia | 28 Apr 2016
The amendments were informed by a root-and-branch review of the legislation, carried out by the Office of Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. This review…
Carter Newell | Australia | 28 Apr 2016
Late last year, the Victorian Supreme Court in the matter of Winky Pop & Anor v Mobil & Anor [2015] VSC 348 was asked to consider the principles of…
McCabe Curwood | Australia | 28 Sep 2015
In the matter of Erlich v Leifer & Anor [2013] VSC 499, the Supreme Court of Victoria recently considered the issue of direct and vicarious liability…
Gadens | Australia | 12 Aug 2015
Breach of statutory duty, more so a breach of the Occupational Health & Safety Regulations, is an extremely common particular of negligence in…
Clayton Utz | Australia | 18 Sep 2014
Victorian owners now have 10 years from the issue of the occupancy permit in which to bring a claim in contract or tort for defective building work…