By: Lesley Woodmore, Sam McNally and Tenielle Corcoran Willis v Orange City Council [2025] NSWDC 208 Note: Wotton Kearney has prepared this as part of our Statewide Mutual Risks Conference 2025 coverage – be sure to visit us in Sydney. For more insights like this, explore our Local Government hub. Overview On 9 July 2020, […]
By: Misha Henaghan and Matt Hutcheson As part of New Zealand Government’s planned reform of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), the first major step is the introduction of the Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Bill (Bill). The Bill proposes a range of changes to consenting and planning rules, and two important […]
Wotton Kearney continues to build momentum in its government team with the appointment of Special Counsel, Kirsty Easdale, a seasoned employment and industrial relations expert with more than a decade of experience advising Commonwealth government agencies. Kirsty joins the firm from MinterEllison, bringing significant expertise in complex employment law, industrial relations strategy, discrimination, and work […]
Wotton Kearney announces the appointment of experienced government litigator John McPherson as Special Counsel in its Canberra office, reinforcing the firm’s expanding national government practice. With over 15 years advising Commonwealth agencies and commercial clients, John joins the firm following extensive experience at Clayton Utz and MinterEllison, bringing deep expertise in public law, regulatory disputes, […]
By: Greg Carruthers-Smith, Meisha Tjiong and Chad Farah State of New South Wales v T2 (by his tutor T1) [2025] NSWCA 165 At a glance In October 2017, a Year 9 student was violently assaulted by his peers shortly after the school bell, and outside school boundaries, sustaining significant injuries. The New South Wales Court of […]
By: Patrick Thompson and James Clohesy At a glance The UK Supreme Court has delivered another judgment dealing with when a public authority can owe a private duty of care to members of the public. The decision reaffirms what is becoming a bright line distinction in the UK between cases where the public authority, by […]
By: Richard Leder, Samantha Saad and Michelle Rich Domenic Colbert (a pseudonym) v Trustees of the Christian Brothers [2024] VSC 309 At a glance On 13 June 2024, the Supreme Court of Victoria delivered its decision in Domenic Colbert (a pseudonym) v Trustees of the Christian Brothers [2024] VSC 309, dismissing the defendant’s application for a […]
DJW v State of Queensland [2023] QSC 138 At a glance On 19 October 2023, the Supreme Court of Queensland handed down its decision to permanently stay the proceedings in an historic abuse claim. The claim involved a psychiatric injury that was alleged to have developed due to the sexual and physical abuse of an […]
GLJ v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Lismore The High Court of Australia has today granted special leave for the appellant to appeal the decision in The Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Lismore v GLJ [2022] NSWCA 78, in which the NSW Court of Appeal […]
Chol v Sydney Trains [2022] NSWSC 1266 The NSW Supreme Court has found for a plaintiff who suffered major injuries after falling between a platform and a train at a Sydney train station. In this matter, the Court accepted that Sydney Trains had a reasonable system of keeping passengers safe. However, it ultimately found Sydney […]
