Insights

In the wake of a recent flurry of regulatory activity by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (‘AHPRA’) regarding advertising obligations, many practitioners may be feeling apprehensive about their ongoing compliance under the Health Practitioner National Law 2009 (the ‘National Law’). However, a new resource recently published by AHPRA may help practitioners to navigate the […]

The Supreme Court of Victoria[1] has sent a solemn message to employers to sit up and listen to employees who make complaints of bullying and harassment in the workplace, by awarding damages in excess of $1.3 million to a plaintiff suffering psychiatric and physical injuries because her employer failed to provide a safe working environment. […]

In this edition of Pharmacy insights we focus on recent legal developments which may impact on pharmacy businesses and highlight recent legislative changes to the Retail Leases Act in NSW, which import new protections for retail pharmacy tenants. Also, we discuss some recent cases in the franchise sector concerning disclosures made by a franchisor. In […]

This article considers the health providers’ duty of care in disclosing genetic information to a patient’s relatives when consent is withheld. In an earlier article in relation to the decision of ABC v St George’s Heath Care NHS Trust,1 we highlighted the difficulties facing health service providers in disclosing a patient’s genetic information to a genetic relative when consent is withheld, […]

The case scenario: A complaint was made to the Pharmacy Board of Australia (‘Board’) that a pharmacist provided an excessive quantity of Restavit, a Schedule 3 poison, and for a duration for which there was no established therapeutic need. The pharmacist explained to the Board that he had supplied the drug as he believed it was […]

Justice Pembroke’s decision in Doltic v Hannover Life Re of Australasia Limited in the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 27 July 2017 is interesting not because it creates any new law but because of His Honour’s erudite assessment of the plaintiff’s case. Following a motor accident in 2009, which Justice Pembroke described as […]

Since 1946 Section 6 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 (‘Section 6’) has been the main vehicle through which claimants in New South Wales have gained direct access to the liability insurance policies of other persons. However, Section 6 has long been the subject of criticism from the bench, bar table and solicitors […]

Paramedics are set to become the 15th registered health profession under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the ‘National Scheme’), with the registration of paramedics on track for mid-2018. A Bill to amend the Health Practitioner National Law (the ‘National Law’) is currently before the Queensland Parliament (the host jurisdiction for the purposes of the […]

Meridian Lawyers has been applauded for its highly positive and engaged workplace culture, after being nominated for the second year in the Employee Engagement and Morale category of the InfoTrack Client Centricity Awards. This year Meridian is also nominated in the Client Service and Delivery category. The InfoTrack Client Centricity Awards focus on legal and […]

Meridian Lawyers continues to go from strength to strength with leading health and insurance law Principal Andrew Saxton and his team joining the firm next month. Joining Andrew in the move from Dibbs Barker to Meridian are Senior Associates, Joanne Hayes and Louise Watson and graduate Lauren Biviano. Andrew served on the Dibbs Barker Board for […]