Aussie school bans handstands, cartwheels at playtime

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Lucky they can't get sued over here.

Who cant be sued? Schools?

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Who cant be sued? Schools?

Not to the same extent as in the USA.

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Not to the same extent as in the USA.

Sure, but Schools, staff members and employees can be sued.

Bloody ridiculous!

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Not sure how this would come to be. ACC would cover the cost of the injury for sure. That's the whole point with ACC - you can't sue UNLESS you can prove that the other party has been recklessly negligent. We haven't even begun to become half of the litigious society that the USA and Australia are thanks to ACC.

Yeah I spent a whole semester studying ACC law back in my law school days. I too wondered on what grounds someone could sue a restaurant. Possibly using common law 'nusisnce'. I vaguely recall some cases where people trespassing hurt themselves on something dangerous on someone else's property and successfully sued.... Or something like that.

A few years back I spent a few weeks in the States visiting my wife's family. Everywhere I looked there were ads for a scumbag ambulance chasing lawyer. She even remembered one of her highshcool teachers dating this a-hole and having a signed photo of him in the classroom.

I hope we never go down that path.