Press releases & announcements
- Super fund sued for heartless approach to cancer sufferer
- Monday 21 May 2012
Media inquiries-Amanda Tattam
- A young Brisbane mother-of-two with secondary breast cancer is suing one of Queensland’s biggest superannuation funds after she was denied a payout from her superannuation insurance.
- Practice Area: Superannuation & Insurance Claims
- WA health failed Erin Berg: family launch legal proceedings
- Monday 14 May 2012
Media inquiries-Amanda Tattam
- The family of a mother-of-four Erin Berg who died while in the care of a Perth community mental health service are suing WA Health for its alleged failures to protect Erin who died on May 10, 2008 after flying to Mexico and committing suicide.
- Practice Area: Medical Negligence
- Flight Centre workplace bullying case filed in Federal Court
- Monday 14 May 2012
Media Contact - Cam Scott
- One of the country’s leading travel agencies is at the centre of a case of corporate workplace bullying, with Maurice Blackburn Lawyers today filing action against Flight Centre in the
Federal Court.
- Practice Area: Employment & Industrial Law
- Sensaslim defamation case ends in a no-show
- Friday 11 May 2012
Media contact - Cameron Scott
- The defamation case filed by Peter O’Brien, a former director of Sensaslim Australia Pty Ltd, against Dr Ken Harvey, received a final nail in the coffin today, with the Supreme Court of Queensland dismissing Mr O'Brien's case and awarding costs against him.
- Practice Area: Social Justice
- High Court victory in bank fees class action
- Friday 11 May 2012
Media contact - Cameron Scott
- The High Court of Australia today agreed to expedite an appeal by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers regarding a Federal Court ruling against group members made in December, in respect of some of the fees ANZ Bank would have to defend in the nationwide class action series against bank exception fees.
- Practice Area: Class Actions & Major Projects
