As the summer’s deadly Delta variant surge slowly seems to be receding, questions are rising anew as to what further harms the coronavirus pandemic may inflict on a nation that already has suffered greatly.
The infection still is creating major
Continue Reading As Delta surge eases, what’s next with this pandemic?
With thanks to Robert Algie for noting Miles v Doyle (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1322 (on Jade).
The plaintiff claimed that as a result of the sexual assaults by the defendant (in respect of which there had been convinctions)
Continue Reading Abuse: Assessing damages for sexual assault.
With thanks to Associate Professor Tina Cockburn for drawing my attention to Todd v South Eastern Sydney Local Health District [2021] NSWSC 1288 (on AUSTLII).
The application was in respect of a patient who had been admitted to St
Continue Reading Medical: Mandatory injunction for medical treatment for post Covid-19 patient.
As the nation rapidly grays, not only are middle-aged and older patients undergoing increasing numbers of knee, hip, ankle, and shoulder surgeries, back operations also have spiked — and a significant number of these procedures may be unwarranted and harmful.
Continue Reading Aching backs lead to dubious surgeries and billion$ in revenue$
The United States will open its northern and southern land borders to fully vaccinated foreign nationals sometime in November 2021. When this happens, it will be the first time since March 2020 that these individuals will be able to enter
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Webb v Tang [2021] WASC 344 (on Jade).
The appellant was convicted after trial before a Magistrate of one charge that, being a teacher who in the course of his work as a teacher formed the belief on reasonable
Continue Reading Abuse: Appeal against conviction for failing to report sexual abuse of a child.
Buckley and National Disability Insurance Agency [2021] AATA 3622 (on JADE) is of interest for its consideration of submissions by the Agency that certain equipment sought by the applicant represented ‘value for money’.
The Tribunal at [18] examined the part
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Kassam v Hazzard; Henry v Hazzard [2021] NSWSC 1320 (on Caselaw) saw the Court dismiss two proceedings which in substance sought orders that certain Covid 19 public health orders were invalid. Justice Beech-Jones, the Chief Judge at Common Law,
Continue Reading Validity of NSW public health orders.
Following increasing pressure from industry and patient groups alike, yesterday (14 October) the European Commission published its proposal to delay the application of the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (EU) 2017/746 (IVDR) by amending the transitional provisions for certain
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In a recent episode of the Virtual Care Paradigm, Nathaniel Lacktman, Chair of Foley’s Telemedicine & Digital Health Industry Team, met with reporter Kat Jercich, Senior Editor of Healthcare IT News. They discussed Lacktman’s philosophy on how regulation can
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