The Oaks Aged Care Facility is battling a gastroenteritis outbreak at its Yahl facility.
February 25, 2019
A man charged with attacking a paramedic has been gifted a get of jail free card in a controversial plea deal offered by prosecutors. Ishwar Seetloo is charged with punching and spitting on a paramedic who was treating him after he passed out at a wedding in May last year. At the Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court today prosecutors offered to drop the most serious charge. But Mr Seetloo’s lawyer, George Balot, said his client would continue to contest all three charges he is facing, relying on the rarely used criminal defence of sane automatism. To rely on the defence Mr Seetloo will need to prove he was reacting to external factors such as alcohol, concussion or a spasm when he lashed out. Mr Balot said reports had been prepared that supported the defence. Mr Seetloo, 22, was drunk and unconscious when he allegedly lashed out, punched and badly injured the paramedic who came to his aid. Wedding guest witnesses, who are now overseas, are still to be interviewed. Mr Balot said it would be argued his clients actions were not voluntary. “There have been two parts to the assault, the spit and the punch,” Mr Balot told the Herald Sun. “The spit is when he’s unconscious on the floor, we say he’s frothing at the mouth, police say he’s spitting. “Then they give him a sedative and that throws him into a whole new state. The sedative would have exacerbated his condition.” In the wake of the attack Mr Seetloo apologised to the paramedic. “I wasn’t conscious. I don’t know what I was doing,” Mr Seetloo said. “I would like to apologise because I don’t want this happening to anybody. I want to say sorry for it.” Mr Seetloo, who is on bail, will return to court in April.
February 25, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative for the Nurses (Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative Inc) Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Deputy President Masson sitting in Melbourne on 22 February 2019.
February 25, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Australian Unity Care Services Pty Ltd T/A Australian Unity Retirement Living Management Pty Ltd for The Australian Unity Independent & Assisted Living NSW Traditional Model Enterprise Agreement 2018 has been approved by Commissioner Johns in Melbourne on 21 February 2019.
February 25, 2019
A jilted wife who got into a scuffle with her husband’s ex-lover has been fined $200 for breaching an intervention order against her. Werribee Magistrates’ Court yesterday heard Carmen Hewett had been ordered to stay away from her husband’s former mistress following a heated confrontation between the women over the 2017 affair. Ms Hewett’s defence lawyer told the court the amorous adulterers had met at an aged care home, where Ms Hewett’s mother-in-law lived and the would-be girlfriend worked. The intervention order prevented Ms Hewett from going within 200m of the mistress’s home or workplace. But Ms Hewett’s lawyers said his client had driven her husband — who she had since reconciled with — to visit his mother at the nursing home, parking about 100m away. They did not believe his former lover was rostered on that day. But when the one-time flame arrived at work and saw Ms Hewett’s car nearby, she approached her and started taking photos. An altercation broke out and both women ended up wrestling on the ground with Ms Hewett injured in the scuffle. Magistrate Kay Robertson said breaching an order was a serious offence which carried a maximum penalty of two years in jail. “There is no property in another person — because the victim in this case had an affair with your husband is a matter for you to sort out peacefully with him,” she said. “It doesn’t automatically give you the right to take action directly against the other person. “That’s why the intervention order was put in place and you have breached that order.” Ms Robertson noted there was little chance of future conflict between the women, as the former flame now no longer worked at the aged care home where Ms Hewett’s mother-in-law lived. Ms Hewett was ordered to pay $200 to the court fund.
February 22, 2019
Latrobe Regional Hospital will answer a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Fair Work Commissioner Cirkovic in the Magistrates Court Commercial Road Morwell today (Scott).
February 22, 2019
South West Healthcare has been summoned before Commissioner Yilmaz in Conference Room G – Level 6 and Conference Room A by a staffer (Landgraf).
February 22, 2019
The Health Services Union and Villa Maria Catholic Homes Limited will deal with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) in front of Deputy President Hamilton in Court 3 – Level 6 and Conference Room B – Level 6 in Sydney at 11.45ma.
