The FWC upheld the employer’s claim of legal professional privilege over an external report and surrounding documents, because they were created to investigate the bullying claims made by various employees and not to provide advice for the yet-to-be initiated unfair...
Correctly interpreting awards has often presented challenges for employers. The vexed issue of award coverage recently reared its ugly head in Maritime Union of Australia v Sea Swift Pty Ltd & Ors [2016] FWCFB 651.
Welcome to this month’s edition of the Panetta McGrath Aged Care Newsletter in which we discuss the recently passed Associations Incorporations Act 2015 (WA) which creates a new scheme of regulation for incorporated associations.
On 30 November 2015 the Mental Health Act 2014 (WA) (“MHA 2014”) will come into substantive operation. Both the MHA 2014 and the Mental Health Legislation Amendment Act 2014 were passed last November, but had limited operation to facilitate a 12 month transition...
In this case the Sydney Children's Hospital Randwick applied to the New South Wales Supreme Court for an order authorising it to carry out the administration of blood, blood products and platelet therapy and the reinfusion of the patient's own blood (as well as any...
The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld the appeal brought by a GP who was found by the Trial Judge to have been negligent for failing to refer his morbidly obese patient for bariatric surgery.
On 9 April 2013, the Court of Appeal delivered two decisions on whether Actions dismissed pursuant to R44G of the District Court Rules can be reinstated. Interestingly, the Court reached different decisions in each case indicating that the circumstances leading to a...
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On 12 October 2011 the Full Court of the Federal Court of Appeal upheld an Appeal by the manufacturer of the drug Vioxx against an earlier decision which awarded damages to a man who claimed his heart attack was caused by the drug. In upholding the Appeal the Full...