Case Studies

Below is a very select number of sample cases that illustrate the importance of protecting your assets with Sage:

$300,000 For Golf Cart Crash

An elderly golfer seriously injured when her playing partner ran over her in a motorised cart was awarded almost $300,000 in compensation yesterday.

Noreen Mary Smith, 77, was a member of Kingswood Golf Club, Dingley, for 39 years and usually played twice a week before she was hit in February 2002.

Mrs Smith was pushing her golf buggy towards the ladies third tee when her playing partner, Joan Sutton, lost control of the cart she was driving. Mrs Smith, of Dandenong, sued the club and Mrs Sutton, 61.

Judge Wendy Wilmoth found the club was 60 per cent liable for the negligence with Mrs Sutton liable for 40 per cent. Click here to download the entire article.

Community Anger Over Rodeo Joe's Threat To Sue

THE organisers of a Daniel Morcombe charity rodeo where Maroochy mayor Joe Natoli broke his back have issued a public plea for him to remove them from a personal injury claim. The mayor sent shockwaves of worry through the Palmwoods community this week when they learned he might sue for the injury where he was bucked from a rodeo bull in a failed publicity stunt. Palmwoods Charity Rodeo chairman Jim Gilson, fellow organiser Laurie Davison and councillor Jenny McKay said yesterday they had received countless calls from volunteers involved in the event fearing they could also be sued. They feared volunteers would now shy away and wondered where community events stood as litigation

Mr Gilson said the notice of intention to sue had “ripped the heart out of what Jenny and I have been working towards for years’’ — a united Palmwoods. “He might be planning to sue the operator but get us off the notice of intention to sue,’’ he said. Click here to download the entire article

Bank Pays $2.5m Cost Of Sex Talk

An Australian lawyer has been given a £1 million ($A2.56 million) settlement after an executive made comments about her breast and sex life at their office Christmas party.

Elizabeth Weston, 29, was offered the astonishing sum to abandon a 'Sexism in the City' case against Merrill Lynch.Mrs Weston earned £ 60,000 as a solicitor in the investment bank's legal department.

At last Christmas's office lunch, at a central London wine bar, she claimed senior lawyer Nathaniel Norgren made 'disgusting" comments about her breasts.

Mrs Weston sued the bank for sexual harassment, victimisation and constructive dismissal. Click here to download the entire article.

Greenies Win Payout

Five protesters were awarded a total of $133,000 damages for psychological injury yesterday after a supreme Court judge ruled loggers had caused them mental distress in an Otway Ranges stand-off.

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Tenant Awarded $1.2m Payout For Back Injury

A woman who injured her back when she tripped on a hole in a carpet sued her land-lady and won $1.2 million in damages yesterday.

The Supreme Court in Brisbane was told Donna Maree Muir, now 45, had fallen in the hallway of a house in Gamenya Drive, Chatswood Hills, in December 1990. She had landed on the bathroom floor and sustained a serious injury.

Justice John Helman found that, by failing to replace or repair the hall carpet at the entrance to the bathroom, the owner of the house, marion Gail Hume, had failed to provide and maintain the house in good tenable repair. he said Hume had therefore exposed Muir to a risk of injury.

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Court Upholds $2.6m golf payout

A North Queensland golfer severely injured when he was hit by a golf ball 10 years ago had his $2.6 million damages payout upheld by a Brisbane Court today.

Glen Thomas Ollier was playing in a charity golf game at the Magnetic Island Country Club, off Townsville, in August 1994, when he was hit by a golf ball. The award was against the player who hit the ball.

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