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The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, upholding the primary judge’s finding that it was reasonably foreseeable that the caseworker would identify a child discussed in the documentary as her former client and perceive a discussion of alleged failings as implicating her role as the child’s caseworker, and therefore, that the psychiatric injury suffered was reasonably forese...

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The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) released updated guidance on 30 September 2026, with examples relevant to healthcare and aged care providers.

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On 23 July 2019 the plaintiff attended the Fiona Stanley Hospital emergency department after a co-worker stepped on her right foot. She had injured the same foot on a door 11 days earlier. She was fitted with a Camboot for a suspected cuboid fracture. On 1 August 2019 she presented to Rockingham General Hospital with a cold, discoloured foot and ...

The child, acting through her mother as next friend, alleged that staff at KEMH failed to appropriately monitor the induction of labour and failed to recognise the increasing risk of fetal compromise as labour progressed. The child was ultimately delivered by emergency Caesarean section in a critically compromised condition. She sustained a severe hypoxic-ischaemic brain inju...