MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR
Melissa Alfredini
The High Court has found that home owners who hold garage sales at their homes do not have the same obligations to visitors as do occupiers of commercial premises. Read more...

BOUNCED
Matt McDonald

A security firm is absolved of responsibility for the bashing of a patron at the hands of its employees. 
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BLACK ICE
Matt McDonald
The Victorian Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by VicRoads against a jury verdict that its negligence caused a head on collision on a bridge on the Calder Highway.
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UBERRIMA FIDES
Andrew Lyle

The Full Federal Court considers the meaning of utmost good faith. 
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THIRD PARTIES & GOOD FAITH
Thalia Kalaboukas


The Court finds that an insurer of a superannuation fund owes a duty of good faith to the members of the fund. Read more...

The Overlawyered website reports this month about a New York Court of Appeal ruling which upheld an award of $1.4million to a drunk subway commuter who tried to outrun a train.  The Court accepted the commuter’s evidence that he was an experienced treadmill runner who was able to tell how fast he was running.  On the basis of that evidence, the Court concluded that the train must have been travelling too fast!