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Hall Payne Helps Police Officer with PTSD

Hall Payne Helps Police Officer with PTSD

Hall Payne recently obtained a favourable Determination from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) for a former Police Officer diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Our client made a claim…

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Hall Payne helps deliver a stinging defeat to the Registered Organisations Commission

Hall Payne helps deliver a stinging defeat to the Registered Organisations Commission

A recent ruling by the Fair Work Commission’s full bench has seen the Registered Organisation Commission (ROC) given a stinging rebuke and quashed its’ refusal to grant the Queensland Together…

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Have a rejected workers’ compensation claim? – You need some legal advice!

Have a rejected workers’ compensation claim? – You need some legal advice!

The recent decision in Pryszlak v. Workers’ compensation Regulator highlights the need for injured workers’ to obtain sound legal advice from an expert workers compensation lawyer.

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Hall Payne Lawyers Restores Ambo’s Reputation And Job

Hall Payne Lawyers Restores Ambo’s Reputation And Job

For over 20 years our client dedicated his working life to helping people as an advanced care paramedic, and had been commended for his service. In one vile smear his…

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Violence in the workplace

Violence in the workplace

It is a cruel reality that those people whose job it is to help others, are most often the victims of violence in the workplace. Most frontline ambulance and hospital…

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Hall Payne recognised among Queensland’s top work injury lawyers

Hall Payne recognised among Queensland’s top work injury lawyers

Hall Payne Lawyers has again been recommended among Queensland’s top work injury lawyers, with Hall Payne Principal Cameron Hall named as one of the State’s leading lawyers in the area….

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Smith’s liable for compensation for multiple injuries as HPL client wins against snackfood giant

Smith’s liable for compensation for multiple injuries as HPL client wins against snackfood giant

Our client sought compensation for multiple injuries sustained at work after being crushed by an automated-robotic arm. Smith’s claimed that a latent defect was responsible and denied liability. This was…

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Hall Payne secures win for rigger following serious neck injury

Hall Payne secures win for rigger following serious neck injury

Mark was an experienced rigger working for a crane, rigging and hoists business in Queensland. Mark’s leading hand directed him to assist loading a portion of tower crane on to…

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Fair Work Commission condemns Glencore for unfair and capricious conduct during protected industrial action

Fair Work Commission condemns Glencore for unfair and capricious conduct during protected industrial action

The Fair Work Commission has condemned Glencore for unfair or capricious conduct that is undermining the collective bargaining process and the freedom of association of employees. Deputy President Asbury noted…

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Industrial Manslaughter – No One Is AboveThe Law

Industrial Manslaughter – No One Is Above The Law

In a significant win for good sense and workers’ protections, Queensland now has Industrial Manslaughter laws.

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QIRC: Brisbane City Council can’t act unilaterally and determine who isn’t part of negotiations

QIRC: Brisbane City Council can’t act unilaterally and determine who isn’t part of negotiations

Hall Payne Lawyers along with the ETU, CFMEU, and AMWU representing workers at Brisbane City Council have successfully stopped Brisbane City Council from acting unilaterally from putting an agreement out…

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Supreme Court upholds peaceful assembly in support of enterprise bargaining campaign

Supreme Court upholds peaceful assembly in support of enterprise bargaining campaign

In a test of Queensland’s laws around peaceful assemblies, Queensland’s Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by Glencore to stop Union members exercising their democratic and industrial rights. The CFMEU…

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