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How fit are you, legally?

Working as a Fitness Professional (FP) can be a rewarding career in helping others achieve their health and fitness goals,…

Commercial Insight

Increased Powers of the Fair Work Ombudsman – Is your Business Vulnerable?

New legislation has recently been introduced which was sparked by the discovery of a number of large organisations found to…

Partnership Agreements – do you have one and is it up to date? Is it a dispute waiting to happen?

Most business partnerships do not last forever. Each year Meridian deals with many disputes between business partners. Disputes often happen…

National Boards armed with new public interest power to take immediate action against health practitioners

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (‘AHPRA’) has applauded recent amendments[1] to the Health Practitioner Regulation Agency National Law Act…

National registration of paramedics – registration standards

On 19 October 2017 the COAG Health Council announced the first appointments to the Paramedicine Board of Australia. The Paramedicine…

Massive Privacy Breach: A lesson in using third party web service providers

The potential for inadvertent privacy breaches in the age of third party web providers became all too apparent for the…

Wright and Wrong

The Federal Court in Victoria recently considered an appeal by ASIC against a decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)…

Crowd-sourced funding for start-ups and SMEs – offering shares to retail investors

From 29 September 2017, public companies may offer ordinary shares to retail investors under the equity-based crowd-sourced funding regime through…

Proposed new Insurance Code of Practice for Superannuation Trustees

On 20 September 2017, the Insurance in Superannuation Working Group (ISWG) released a draft Insurance Code of Practice for Superannuation…

“Check, Correct, Change” guidance published by AHPRA a welcome resource for practitioners seeking clarity in advertising regulation

In the wake of a recent flurry of regulatory activity by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (‘AHPRA’) regarding advertising…

Significant $1.3m payout warns employers to take employee bullying complaints seriously

The Supreme Court of Victoria[1] has sent a solemn message to employers to sit up and listen to employees who…

Pharmacy insights – Spring 2017

In this edition of Pharmacy insights we focus on recent legal developments which may impact on pharmacy businesses and highlight…

Disclosure of confidential genetic information to relatives

This article considers the health providers’ duty of care in disclosing genetic information to a patient’s relatives when consent is withheld. In an…

A reminder for pharmacists: exercise caution when dispensing Schedule 3 Poisons

The case scenario: A complaint was made to the Pharmacy Board of Australia (‘Board’) that a pharmacist provided an excessive quantity…

Court’s disdain for disability claim

Justice Pembroke’s decision in Doltic v Hannover Life Re of Australasia Limited in the Supreme Court of New South Wales…

70 years in the making: the Civil Liability (Third Party Claims Against Insurers) Act 2017

Since 1946 Section 6 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 (‘Section 6’) has been the main vehicle through…

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