Case Studies
1.8 minHBA was retained to undertake a review of a long tail claim, for a client within the transport and logistics [...]
1.9 minThe defence of claims that are denied because an employee has engaged in serious and wilful misconduct, are difficult. The [...]
1.8 minBritton and Comcare [2023] AATA 3505 This was an interlocutory decision of the Tribunal to dismiss the applicant’s application as [...]
1.1 minBith v Telstra Corporation Limited [2023] AATA 3612 The applicant lodged a claim for workers’ compensation, alleging injury to his [...]
0.6 minVincent vs Woolworths [2015] NSWSC 435 Mrs Vincent was a product merchandiser of a brand stocked by Woolworths (ie not [...]
1.2 minRobin and Cameron Kelly vs Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali HBA acted for the Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali, on [...]
0.8 minHBA defended an engineering firm in proceedings issued out of the Supreme Court of Victoria. The dispute arose from a [...]
1.3 minOur team represented a geotechnical engineering firm which was engaged by a residential building company to undertake soil testing at [...]
0.7 minHBA Legal represented a public hospital in coronial investigations concerning the suicide of a mental health patient after discharge from [...]
1 minAl Kammessy vs Argo Managing Agency [2018] NSWCA 176 This landmark win in the Court of Appeal related to a [...]
0.9 minWoolworths Ltd v McQuillan [2017] NSWCA 202 This is seen as a breakthrough case on the question of the test [...]
2.6 minMcKenzie vs Charles Stewart & Company Proprietary Limited (trading as Colac Rental Management) [2024] VCC 429 HBA acted for the [...]
1.6 minKalache v Secureclean Pty Ltd (No. 2) [2019] NSWDC 717 (23 October 2019) HBA Legal acted for a London insurer [...]
0.7 minIacopetta v Woolworths Ltd [2015] NSWCA 87 Mrs Iacopetta was a very optimistic plaintiff. We recognised very early in the [...]
0.9 minAndreou v Woolworths [2013] NSWDC 83 Ms Andreou was walking in a supermarket at the time of a freak storm. [...]
2.7 minFarrow Smith and Comcare [2025] ARTA 1059 The issue before the Tribunal was whether the applicant was entitled to compensation [...]
1.8 minKhanna v. Woolworths Group Limited [2022] NSWCA 94 The team at HBA Legal successfully defended a claim made by a [...]
1.2 minBye v Hend & Anor [2025] ACTSC 555 The plaintiff commenced proceedings in the ACT Supreme Court against her landlord [...]
0.8 minOur team advised a private hospital and its Australian insurer on the successful resolution of a $14 million catastrophic brain [...]
0.7 minWithnell v Tran [2023] WADC 100 HBA Legal acted in a claim brought by a pedestrian plaintiff who was seriously [...]
0.7 minAfter HBA Legal took over a CTP file load from fellow solicitors in Queensland, we identified a number of actions [...]
0.5 minHBA successfully defended a claim made by an insured, following on from an indemnity declinature it had recommended under a [...]
0.6 minOur team acted in a professional indemnity claim against a law firm, on behalf of a company in an under [...]
0.7 minHBA acted for a property manager in a claim for personal injury damages commenced by an insurance claims manager who [...]
1.2 minThis case ended up in the NSW Supreme Court in 2020. HBA successfully defended an Australian ski resort in a [...]