Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person (defendant) does not owe a duty to another person (plaintiff) to warn of an obvious risk to the plaintiff.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if--
(a) the plaintiff has requested advice or information about the risk from the defendant; or
(b) the defendant is required by a written law to warn the plaintiff of the risk; or
(c) the defendant is a professional, other than a doctor, and the risk is a risk of the death of or personal injury to the plaintiff from the provision of a professional service by the defendant.
Note--
In relation to paragraphs (a) and (b), see section 21 for the duty of a doctor to warn of risk.
(3) Subsection (2) does not give rise to a presumption of a duty to warn of a risk in the circumstances referred to in that subsection.
(4) In this section--
a professional has the same meaning as it has in division 5.