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psychological injury
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Picture hiddenPsychological injuryTraumatised by SBS doco: caseworker wins $1.4 mil psych damages
The NSW Court of Appeal dismissed DCJ's appeal after a caseworker suffered psychiatric injury on watching a documentary segment about a former client.
- Litigation & law practice
Staff member devastated by phone call "stand down", does reasonable management immunity apply?
Like many organisations, the state peak body for child care professionals - the Family Day Care Association of Queensland - holds a biennial strategic planning retreat that it goes to great lengths to assure its success and which…
- Litigation & law practice
Conflict is normal, screaming at overworked staff is not. Assistant wins $436k compo
A nursing home administration assistant has won a long-running compensation battle against the TriCare organisation for persistent “harassment” - that regularly reduced her to tremors and tears - dished out by her supervisor.
- Litigation & law practice
Psychiatric damages big part of $1 mil award when family told of air crash death
The spouse and children of a vegetation officer killed on the job with a regional shire council have won substantial post-traumatic stress damages for the way they were told of the air crash that took his life.
- Litigation & law practice
A literary offence: teacher sues school over author’s account of heroine’s sex life
A “badly written” account of the goings-on at an imaginary Queensland junior school is alleged to have been based on real dramas in the private lives of staff at an outer Brisbane primary institution, fed to the author by one of…
- Litigation & law practice
Employer in $2 mil battle over resolution of hostile co-worker complaints
A senior manager and three administration officers employed at a Disability Services Queensland (DSQ) regional office have sued for over $2 million for the psychiatric fallout of a bitter and prolonged harassment complaint made…
- Litigation & law practice
Vulnerability no bar to bullied shoppie’s $1.2 mil damages ask
A claimant's high vulnerability to psychological injury does not reduce an employer's responsibility for the consequences of bullying but is relevant in assessing the financial loss sustained.
- Litigation & law practice
Bali bombing journo’s PTSD: should superiors screen susceptible staff for stress?
A photographer for The Age newspaper assigned to shoot an anniversary pictorial of Australian victims of the October 2012 Bali bombings, suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression in response to the…
- Legal profession
Worst plaintiff ever? Dramatist of his own disaster in demolition of mental disorder damages
After a five-day hearing in Mackay, the Supreme Court last month handed down judgment for the plaintiff in a liability admitted motor accident claim* – where the plaintiff scored possibly the lowest ever tally on Queensland’s…
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