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
Tags: workers’ compensation
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’ compensation
18 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’ compensation
06 August 2020
Pearce v Prescare [2020] QDC 149
Keywords: nature of injuries in dispute, pre-existing medical conditions, reduction of damages, workers’ compensation
03 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