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Award Interpretation: Are you Covered?
Correctly interpreting awards has often presented challenges for employers. The vexed issue of award coverage recently reared its ugly head in...

Aged Care Newsletter November 2015
Welcome to this month’s edition of the Panetta McGrath Aged Care Newsletter in which we discuss the recently passed Associations Incorporations Act...

Mental Health Act 2014
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...

The Sydney Children’s Hospital Network v X [2013] NSWSC 368
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...

Varipatis v Almario [2013] NSWCA 76
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...

Alert: Court of Appeal Considers r44G
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...

Jordan v Lee and Baker [2012] WADC 74
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Kozanoglu v The Pharmacy Board of Australia [2011] VCAT 2085
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Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia) Pty Ltd v Peterson [2011] FCAFC 128
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...

I v Medical Board of Australia [2011] SAHPT 18
On 3 March 2011 the Respondent took immediate action against Dr I to suspend his registration pursuant to s.156 of the National Law. The Doctor...