Safe Places Community Services Limited has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) with which it must deal in front of Commissioner Booth in chambers in Brisbane (Watson).
August 13, 2019
Two or three people have been quarantined at a Glenorchy nursing home suffering the flu. Glenview Community Services chief executive Lucy O’Flaherty last night denied there had been an outbreak at the aged care home.
August 13, 2019
An application for approval of the Royal Rehab Lifestyle Support Enterprise Agreement 2019 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be reviewed by Deputy President Mansini in chambers in Melbourne.
August 13, 2019
The Benevolent Society has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) with which it must contend before Fair Work Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney (Kirsten).
August 9, 2019
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health & Petrou and Others have a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) to defend before Deputy President Boyce in chambers (by telephone) (Place).
August 9, 2019
A man who punched his partner repeatedly in the chest as she lay in bed is trying to have his assault conviction overturned because he wants to become a youth social worker. The 34-year-old, who has interim name suppression, was earlier convicted of assault on a person in a family relationship for the late March attack. According to the summary of facts, the couple were at their Blenheim home when, in conversation, “the defendant took offence to the views of the victim in relation to a male he had previously had an altercation with”. He became aggressive and verbally abusive towards her, and she punched him in self defence before fleeing to a neighbour’s house, asking them to call police. The neighbours came with the victim back to the house to confront the man. “The defendant commenced a physical altercation with these persons while the victim went to her bedroom and attempted to go to sleep,” the summary said. It is unclear what occurred during this physical altercation, but directly afterwards the man came into the bedroom and confronted his partner, approaching her while she lay in bed and punched her hard in the torso about eight times with a closed fist. The judge has reserved his decision.
August 9, 2019
Doctor Deane Drew had been starting sexual relationships with multiple patients over decades of practice and prescribed medications to a patient who was abusing them. The Wellington practice owner was last month struck off by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (HPDT), which today released its written decision. The tribunal’s decision reveals all of these patients were vulnerable through their own mental health issues. The tribunal also found a text message from the doctor to one of the patients saying “please don’t lay a complaint as it could ruin my life and that would be pretty harsh for abusing your trust and treating you badly”. HPDT chair Alison Douglass said: “There was a severe departure from accepted standards and the seriousness of the conduct warrants a disciplinary sanction.” As a result, on top of the fine and $28,966 of costs, Douglass ordered that Drew’s medical registration be cancelled and conditions be imposed that he needed to meet before he could apply for re-registration. They also recommended to the Medical Council that further conditions to be placed on his practice if the he was re-registered in the future. Drew, a former part owner of the Lambton Quay practice City Medical, had been prescribing drugs of dependence and psychotropic medications to all of the women while he was in a close personal relationship with them.
August 9, 2019
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Aged Care Services Australia Group Pty Ltd will contest a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Johns in chambers in Sydney.
