Giles Kellner, Partner, discusses the implications of a recent liability decision in a case arising out of a road traffic accident involving a trainee motorcyclist, in which he and Darryl Allen KC acted for the defendant.
In the Queensland District Court matter of Coulon v Adams [2022] QDC 291, the principle of res ipsa loquitur was addressed in determining that a doctor was not liable for a splenic injury suffered by a patient during a colonoscopy.