Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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Is PTSD a bodily injury?
Published 2022Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is unique among psychiatric disorders in that the cause, a traumatic event (or events), is known. PTSD is often the subject of legal proceedings, with persons seeking compensation from ...Open AccessArticle -
Throwing a cat among the Pridgeon(s): The New South Wales Court of Appeal and the public interest test under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
Published 2022This section examines the 2022 decision of Pridgeon v Medical Council of New South Wales in the New South Wales Court of Appeal that has taken a fundamentally different view of the public interest test employed in immediate ...Open AccessArticle -
Suicide-related materials and voluntary assisted dying
Published 2020This column discusses the potential for conflict between the Federal laws forbidding the use of telecommunications to spread "suicide-related materials" and the laws in Victoria and Western Australia which have legalised ...Open AccessArticle -
Brain death and pregnancy: on the legalities of post-mortem gestation
Published 2020This column examines a 2020 decision of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Millard v Australian Capital Territory [2020] ACTSC 138, which dealt with a dispute concerning a brain dead pregnant woman and ...Open AccessArticle -
The public interest test in immediate action hearings under the 'Health Practitioner Regulation National Law'
Published 2021This paper examines the public interest test and how it is employed in immediate action hearings under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law. It examines the history of the test in New South Wales and its eventual ...Open AccessArticle