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    Tag: Courts

    Supreme Court judgement limits boards’ powers to pause investigations, says AHPRA’s top lawyer

    April 14, 2025

    Health practitioner boards have limited powers to delay decisions indefinitely after receiving a finalised investigation report, based on a recent case, says AHPRA’s general counsel.…

    Doctor jailed for six years after ‘entanglement’ with Comanchero bikie gang

    April 8, 2025

    A doctor who got “in over his head” after coming into contact with the Comancheros has been imprisoned for supplying garbage bags full of prescription…

    Doing peer review for no money: a noble tradition or ‘conspiracy’ to enrich journal publishers?

    March 19, 2025

    Researchers are fighting the centuries-old tradition of unpaid peer review, claiming that publishers are banking huge profits off the back of their free labour. Four…

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    Expert medical witnesses have been used for centuries — replacing them could harm doctors in negligence claims

    March 19, 2025

    The need for expert evidence — based on a person’s training, study or experience — to assist in the determination of disputes has been with…

    Junior doctors reach $175 million agreement over unpaid overtime after four-year legal battle

    March 14, 2025

    Current and former junior doctors in Victoria have reached a $175 million in-principle agreement with the State Government over unpaid overtime — four years after…

    Dr Charlie Teo reaches legal settlement with family of glioblastoma patient who allegedly underwent futile brain surgery

    March 14, 2025

    Dr Charlie Teo has settled with a family who attempted to sue him for more than $1.5 million over the death of their mother, who…

    Doctor’s defamation case against ‘nasty’ online reviews fails

    March 4, 2025

    A respiratory physician has lost a defamation claim over a targeted campaign of negative reviews after a court found insufficient evidence that the reviews had…

    Parents who thought medicine was ‘witchcraft’ and stopped daughter’s insulin get 14 years in jail for manslaughter

    February 27, 2025

    A mother and father who withheld insulin from their eight-year-old, believing God would cure her diabetes, have been sentenced to 14 years in prison for…

    Rent-a-quack: The Lucy Letby case has me reflecting on our own medical expert issues

    February 26, 2025

    In a recent Medical Observer opinion piece on the Lucy Letby case, Professor Amel Alghrani argued that relying on expert doctors in criminal medical cases could…

    Doctors allowed to resect seven-year-old’s brain tumour as Jehovah’s Witnesses opt against court fight

    February 20, 2025

    Emergency surgery to resect a seven-year-old’s brain tumour will go ahead after the child’s Jehovah’s Witness parents decided not to fight doctors in court over…

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