Adviceline Injury Lawyers – Firm History
Adviceline Injury Lawyers has been operating since 2008 as a division of Holding Redlich. A separate division was created to emphasise our particular focus, experience and expertise in personal injury cases.
We have been assisting injured Victorians obtain compensation for over 30 years.
Holding Redlich was founded in 1975, and initially acted principally as a personal injury firm. Over time, Holding Redlich also developed a commercial and property law practice.
Holding Redlich
Holding Redlich has a reputation of being a leading industrial law firm, with a strong social conscience. We have extensive experience representing individual workers, unions and union members. Over the years, we have been involved in groundbreaking landmark litigation. Some examples include:
- The first Australian judgment for a worker in an asbestos claim , Bewley v Commonwealth (1980) Supreme Court of Victoria
- AAA v Backwell (1994) Supreme Court of Victoria – the first case where aggravated damages were awarded against a doctor in Australia. This case, which received international publicity, concerned a fertility doctor who pressured a couple into undergoing an abortion after the woman was inseminated with the wrong sperm.
- The Stolen Generations litigation, 1996- 1998, brought on behalf of Northern Territory Aboriginals. This case ran for 109 sitting days in the Federal Court, and ultimately went on appeal to the High Court. Holding Redlich won awards in recognition of its involvement in this case.
- The Tampa case, Ruddock v Vadarlis (2001) Federal Court of Australia, where the power of the Commonwealth Government to detain and remove asylum-seekers from Australia was challenged in the Federal Court.
- Over
the last decade the personal injury team at Holding Redlich has been involved
in many Court of Appeal cases involving serious injury applications made under
the Accident Compensation Act.
Most recently, Haden Engineering Pty Ltd v McKinnon (2010) Victorian Supreme Court of Appeal is a case that we ran for an injured worker, which went all the way to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal found in favour of the worker, and the judgment is now the leading case in Victoria in determining whether a worker has a serious injury in respect of pain and suffering consequences.
