Case History

NT SPECTATORS – ‘INJURY’ CASE SETTLES FOR IN EXCESS OF 3.4 MILLION NT Spectator Injury Case at RedNATS Event Alice Springs Raceway settles for $3.4 million and sends clear message to organisers as to the impact of breach of duty of care A number of Northern Territory and Western Australian Claimants have settled a class action in the Federal Court of Australia at Sydney for an amount of $3.4 million in damages and insurance benefits, with the case highlighting the extent of personal injuries suffered as a result of serious injuries sustained by spectators at the Alice Springs Inland Dragway on 3 September 2017. The case was conducted by Greg Walsh OAM of Greg Walsh & Co Solicitors of Oatley in Sydney. The initial advice provided to the Claimants was to the effect that the circumstances of the accident was one which arose as a result of a motor vehicle accident arising from a burnout competition, when pure methanol fuel generated by the competitor in the course of the competition, ignited rubber detritus situated in close proximity to the spectator watching the event. As a result, a number of spectators were severely burnt and others suffered psychological injury. Greg Walsh

The Daily Telegraph – COMMUNITY services have been accused of lying for years that crucial documents were destroyed in a blaze before detectives found them intact in just a day. Read more

A multimillion-dollar breakup involving a wealthy hotelier has claimed another scalp as his trustee in bankruptcy is left with a $350,000 legal bill. Louise Thomson has been slammed by a court for running up legal costs and her own fees of hundreds of thousands of dollars when she didn’t need to while administering the bankrupt estate of hotelier Les Young. Meanwhile, four years after a court ordered Mr Young, 75, to pay his ex-wife Joanne Young $3 million, she is yet to see a cent of the money. The saga began when Mr Young declared himself bankrupt after the Supreme Court in 2013 awarded Ms Young the payment. The court found Mr Young had wrongly thrown her out of her home at his Wiley Park hotel, put down her two terriers Fluffy and Molly, maliciously told police she had stolen from him and taken off with her best friend, Josephine Smith. Mr Young and Ms Smith lived in a $5 million harbour side penthouse but instead of putting it on the market to pay Ms Young, Ms Smith, whose jewellery alone has been valued at $850,000, was found to have defied a court order by putting it up as security

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