Ratewave Pty Ltd t/as Manly Pacific Hotel Sydney v Radim Radeck [2021] NSWWCCMA 6 On 11 May 2020, Dr Ashish Takyar, psychiatrist, in his capacity as an Approved Medical...
Jafarian v WildFire Interiors Pty Ltd [2021] NSWWCC 12 On 8 January 2021, Senior Arbitrator Glenn Capel found that the Applicant, Masoud Jafarian, was not a ‘worker’ in the...
Govier v The Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (Q) [2018] HCA Trans 65 (13 April 2018) In 2018, the High Court considered the extent to which an employer assumes...
Background The 2015 amendments to the Workers Compensation Act 1987 (‘the Act’), whilst arguably not as sweeping or broad as those taking place in 2012, brought with them some...
Ward v Allianz Australia Services Pty Ltd [2019] NSWDC 293 The recent judgment in the matter of Ward v Allianz Australia Services Pty Ltd [2019] NSWDC 293 highlights a new trend...
Yildiz v Fullview Plastics Pty Ltd [2019] NSWWCCPD 24 This decision pertains to whether a non-exempt worker is entitled to receive lump sum compensation under the released s67 of...
There is some good news for NSW Firefighters who have been diagnosed with cancer with the introduction of the Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment (Firefighters) Act 2018...
By the very nature of claims for industrial, it is quite often the case that the injury was sustained some time prior to the date of notice being given to an employer. The first...
Chalkias v State of New South Wales [2018] NSWSC 1561 As set out in section 321 of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (‘the WIMA), the primary...
RSM Building Services Pty Ltd v Hochbaum [2019] NSWWCCPD 15 Background In the recent decision of RSM Building Services Pty Ltd v Hochbaum [2019] NSWWCCPD 15 (18 April 2019)...
