EVIDENCEPlaintiff employee sustained injuries in course of her employmentPlaintiff’s WorkCover claim for compensation under workers compensation legislation accepted and ongoing payments made to date of trialWhether continued payments of workers compensation by WorkCover agent amounts to an admission against employer defendant that plaintiff totally incapacitated as a result of injuries sustained in course of her employment
EQUITYTrustsBeneficiary application for inspection of trust documents granted in the exercise of the Court’s supervisory jurisdictionTrustees withheld certain “excluded documents” from production on the basis of legal professional privilege and on the grounds of confidentiality
ADMINISTRATIVE LAWJudicial reviewPolice officer dismissed from Victoria Police after a finding that a charge of disgraceful conduct was provenInquiry officer who found the charge proven amended the charge
JUDICIAL REVIEWWhether Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Victoria) (‘National Law’) validWhether CEO of Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (‘AHPRA’) has standing to lay charges for alleged contraventions of the National LawCooperative legislation arrangement
Discoveryobjection to inspection of material adduced on grounds that material contained reference to privileged communication between plaintiff and his legal practitioners
PRACTICE AND PROCEDUREApplication for transfer of winding up proceeding to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of AustraliaWinding up proceeding related to family law matters and application for oppression orders in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of AustraliaApplication of implied obligation referred to in Hearne v Street [2008] HCA 36; (2008) 235 CLR 125
FAMILY LAWREVIEWwhether a bank account controlled by the Husband should be subject to an injunctionwhether there is a risk that the Husband will dissipate the funds in the account and jeopardise the Wife’s claim at trial.
ADMINISTRATIVE LAWJudicial reviewPolice officer dismissed from Victoria Police after finding that he had breached conflict of interest policyPolice officer had consensual sex with a woman he had interviewed in relation to a charge of unlawful assault
Serious injury applicationconsequences and impairment as a result of injury to the plaintiff’s backwhether the consequences are “serious” under the Actthe plaintiff abandoned her claim for psychiatric/psychological injuries arising from the transport accident
Serious injury applicationphysical injury to the lower backwhether the pain and suffering consequences are “serious” under the Actwhether the plaintiff has satisfied the statutory test of loss of 40 per cent of income
JUDICIAL REVIEWWhere plaintiff was a health practitioner and suspended and charged with indictable offences under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law 2009 (Vic)Where plaintiff sought to issue a witness summons addressed to the AttorneyGeneral for the State of Queensland for the purpose of asking her opinion on constitutional validity of the National Law
JUDICIAL REVIEWDecision of Building Appeals Board to affirm a Building Order issued by the Municipal Building SurveyorReconstruction of raised deck attached to dwelling carried out without building permitWhether building permit required
Serious injury applicationphysical injury to the lower backwhether pain and suffering consequences are “serious” under the Actwhether the plaintiff has satisfied the statutory test of 40 per cent loss of earnings due to the injury