O’Connell v Witham; TAC v Inroads Pty Ltd [2021] VSC 8 Keywords: apportionment of liabilities, contribution from roadworks contractor, contributory negligence, in the course of employment, injured…22 January 2021
Wicks v Workers’ Compensation Regulator [2021] QIRC 001 Keywords: aggravation of psychological injury, appeal to Commission, application for compensation, Church, hearing de novo, limitation…04 January 2021
Giles v State of Queensland [2020] QDC 332 Keywords: breach of duty, firefighter, first responders, psychiatric injury, workers’ compensation18 December 2020
Motlap v Workers’ Compensation Regulator [2020] QIRC 196 Keywords: appeal against decision of the Regulator, credibility of witnesses, whether the appellant is a worker…17 November 2020
Heesom v ASP Ship Management Pty Ltd [2020] NSWDC 653 Keywords: contributory negligence, foreseeability, negligence, stairway obstructed by stored hoses, worker falls down a stairway on…02 November 2020
NG v Pharmacor [2020] VMC 21 Keywords: arising out of employment, express or implied inducement or encouragement, Hatzimanolis, in the course of…07 October 2020
Filiposka v Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd [2020] NSWDC 540 Keywords: awkward lift and twist manoeuvre, back injury, breach of duty of care, chicken carcasses, contributory…18 September 2020
Robertson v State of Queensland & Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service [2020] QDC 185 Keywords: bullying and harassment, duty to avoid psychiatric injury, foreseeability, psychiatric injury, workers’ compensation06 August 2020
Pearce v Prescare [2020] QDC 149 Keywords: nature of injuries in dispute, pre-existing medical conditions, reduction of damages, workers’ compensation03 July 2020
Khan v Workers Compensation Regulator [2020] QIRC 095 Keywords: appeal against decision of Workers Compensation Regulator, implementation of the performance management plan was reasonable…24 June 2020
Peters v Wilkins Trust [2020] QDC 125 Keywords: expert evidence, foreseeable risk, intervening event, obvious risk, reasonable precautions against the risk of injury,…10 June 2020
Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union of Employees v Workers’ Compensation Regulator [2020] QIRC 76 Keywords: injury claimed to arise from a meeting with supervisor on resumption from work after long…21 May 2020
Tyndall v Kestrel Coal Pty Ltd [2020] QSC 56 Keywords: application by plaintiff to inspect defendant’s property alleged to have caused injury, defendant makes application…31 March 2020
Starling v Workers’ Compensation Regulator [2020] QIRC 039 Keywords: appeal, appeal dismissed, physical injury, recent invention, relevance of lack of contemporaneous medical records, where…11 March 2020
Toll Holdings Limited v McCaw [2020] NSWWCCPD 14 Keywords: appeal, assaulted by fellow employee while at work, whether a fight at work arose out…10 March 2020
Workers’ Compensation Regulator v Langerak [2020] ICQ 002 Keywords: Employment related psych injury, entitlement to compensation, respondent transferred to a new location and role…05 March 2020