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Committee recommends extending anti-vilification protections

Thinking| 25 Mar 2021

Committee recommends extending anti-vilification protections

A report by the Victorian Parliament’s Legal and Social Issues Committee has recommended measures to extend anti-vilification protections. We provide a round-up of the report’s recommendations.

Statutory insurance NSW/ACT 2016 in review

Statutory Insurance| 24 Jan 2017

Statutory insurance NSW/ACT 2016 in review

The objective test for contributory negligence. What is reasonable to invest in the reasonable person?

Procedural fairness at MAS is for insurers too

Statutory Insurance| 15 Sep 2016

Procedural fairness at MAS is for insurers too

The plaintiff [claimant] filed a summons in the Supreme Court seeking a declaration setting aside the Proper officer’s decision to allow a review of Assessor Ashwell’s Medcal Assessment Service (MAS) certificate.

Judgment contains a warning on perjury and estoppel

Insurance| 28 Jun 2016

Judgment contains a warning on perjury and estoppel

In the case of Genevieve Audrey Amor-Smith v Peter Ching [2016] NSWDC 89 the plaintiff was involved in a scooter accident on 25 August 2011.

Let’s get to the point. What’s it really worth?

Statutory Insurance| 08 Feb 2016

Let’s get to the point. What’s it really worth?

There needs to be a sound evidentiary basis for a claim to be made so that the “real chance of success” can be properly evaluated on the basis of the evidence taken at its highest.