Busa v South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Trading as Sydney Eye Hospital [2025] NSWSC 130 (Link to Caselaw).
Judgment was entered for the defendant in this matter, arising from a procedure carried out on the plaintiff’s left eye by a doctor at the Sydney Eye Hospital in 2015. The plaintiff claimed to have…
Re: Devin [2025] FedCFamC1F 211 (Link to AUSTLII).
This decision is perhaps of interest as a contrast to earlier decisions on similar issues.
The proceedings concerned Devin, a biologically male child, born in 2013. Whether the child’s biological (or, as the mother and her experts would say, assigned) sex, accords with the child’s gender or…
Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle v AA [2025] NSWCA 72 (Link to Caselaw).
Court headnote
The plaintiff (the respondent to this appeal) brought proceedings against the appellant for sexual assaults alleged to have been perpetrated on him in 1968 by Father Ronald Pickin, who was then an assistant…
Following assent, this legislation is now in effect. Claim Farming Practices Prohibition Act 2025 (NSW).
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DZY (a pseudonym) v Trustees of the Christian Brothers [2025] HCA 16 (Link to JADE).
A joint judgment was written by Gageler CJ, Gordon, Edelman and Gleeson JJ. A separate judgement was written by Steward J.
Ground 1 – Interpretation point – Upheld
The plurality stated that although the plurality of the Court of…
Practitioners who commit sexual misconduct to be permanently identified (Link to Ahpra website).
A media summary on the Ahpra website summarises changes flowing from the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024.(Link). Legislation has passed the Queensland Parliament and are to be adopted in the other states and…
Fulton v Surfing Australia Limited [2025] NSWDC 115 (Link to Caselaw).
This interlocutory decision concerning late service of expert evidence by a party is perhaps of interest, given the concession by the party (a defendant) that the late service arose as a result of a strategic decision to delay obtaining expert liability evidence on…
Re Protected Estates Financial Advice Protocol [2025] NSWSC 311 (Link to Caselaw).
Orders made (under the NSW Trustee and Guardian Act 2009 NSW, section 64) establishing a protocol governing the retention by the manager of a protected estate of the services of an external licensed financial adviser.
See the judgment at [6].
THE PROTECTED…
Re KT and JC, Protected Persons [2025] NSWSC 306 (Link to Caselaw).
In each of two cases, orders were made for removal and replacement of an institutional manager of a protected estate (a licensed trustee company) occasioned by a change of ownership of the manager; a consequential change in management policy to bring all…
Page bhnf Page v Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service [2025] NSWSC 315 (Link to Caselaw).
The plaintiff resides with his parents and siblings near Lake Macquarie, NSW. Although the family resided in Queensland in 2011, they had moved to New South Wales in 2015.
The proceedings he issued were against the Gold Coast University…
