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Jane Fiske, Partner in the Lander & Rogers’ Health & Ageing team, discusses what should and should not be included in patient records and explains why good record keeping is...

Legal experts shed light on how ‘absolute’ is an employer’s ‘absolute discretion’ when it comes to bonuses and incentive payments, and provide some handy HR tips for avoiding claims of...

American citizen Meghan Markle's wedding at Windsor Castle over the weekend may just be the world's most famous 'destination wedding' to date. But not all destination weddings have a happy...

Increasing costs of living, employment opportunities, and the need for family support are all reasons why the Court is seeing an increase in relocation applications. The financial and emotional pressure...

In between the tax cuts and promises to return to surplus, you may have noticed that one of the centrepieces of the 2018 budget released this week was increased funding...

While many companies understand and have in place a system to discharge their work health and safety obligations, a specific duty often less understood is the obligation of a company's...

Commencing Family Law proceedings whilst living overseas can be daunting. In this article, we provide a guide as to who can issue what types of family law proceedings under the...

Under new legislation introduced earlier this year, labour hire companies in South Australia and Queensland are now required to be licensed, and employers that engage labour hire companies are obliged...

The NSW Health Care Complaints Commission has been successful in applying to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal to find a chiropractor guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct, with...

In the judgment of A B v Australian Capital Territory [2018] ACTSC 16, the Supreme Court of ACT found that Canberra Hospital (Hospital) had failed to take precautions to avoid...

The South Australian Health Practitioner's Tribunal has reprimanded a nurse for professional misconduct and disqualified him from applying for re-registration for two years for his improper relationship with the spouse...

Mrs McCarthy was a resident at Vasey RSL Care, Brighton East (Vasey Brighton East) aged care facility. At the time of her death she was 85 years of age. Mrs...