duty of care

Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd v Carey Schofield; Civeo Pty Ltd v Carey-Schofield [2025] QCA 161

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duty of care, medical procedure, negligence, plaintiff’s evidence was unreliable, where a treating doctor lacks objectivity and has never practised in Australia, where numerous and substantive issues with evidence of overseas treating doctor, where the Expert Witness Code was not acknowledged, where the plaintiff claimed that the loss of notes contributed to his PTSD EVIDENCE, whether procedure carried was to a standard widely accepted in Australia by peer professional opinion as competent professional practice

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battery, battery not made out, breach, causation, chain of causation broken, distinct and significant criminal action of third party led to arrest leading up to injury, duty of care, no breach made out, novus actus interveniens, police officers owe duty to take reasonable care to avoid risk of harm to class of persons in immediate vicinity of operational response during protest march, police utterly without fault in colliding with the respondent, public authorities, reasonable to effect arrest in the way done, regard to be had to police obligations to take actions to prevent breaches of the peace even in crowded situations, risk of harm in police actions inflicting physical injury on identified class of person, s43A of Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) inapplicable, third party actions leading to respondent’s injury not occurring in ordinary course of events which might flow from police action, Trespass to the person

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cope of duty of care, duty of care, Jury verdict, negligence, personal injury, Sexual abuse of child spectator by volunteer with sporting club, torts, Verdict reasonably open on the evidence, Whether jury properly instructed could have concluded on the evidence that applicant knew or ought to have known of risk of sexual abuse by a volunteer in relevant period, Whether jury’s verdict as to liability was one which no jury acting reasonably could have reached on the evidence most favourable to respondent or was against the weight of the evidence

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confidentiality of the complainant, duty of care, internal investigation of a complaint to a third party, psychiatric injury, scope of duty of care, workplace injury

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after school hours, assault not on school premises, Bullying, duty of care, negligence, school student

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disciplinary meeting, duty of care, Employer Liability, performance management, psychiatric injury, reasonable foreseeability of injury, risk of psychiatric injury

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causation, duty of care, foreseeability, negligence, risk of psychiatric harm to employee, where employee did not indicate to employer that psychiatric harm was being suffered, where employee was verbally harassed by co-worker, where the employee made complaint to employer and employer took reasonable steps to address risk of psychiatric harm