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Compensation:- the shifting sands of applications for compensation for pain and suffering under the Sentencing Act
Record ID:
22608
Format:
LIJ Article
Year:
2002
Author:
Bracken, Darren ;
Subject:
Workers Compensation ; Sentencing ; Occupational Health and Safety ;
Source:
LIJ (2002) 76 No 4
Date_of_entry:
06/05/2002
Legislation:
Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic) s 85B
Notes:
Applications for compensation under the sentencing Act 1991 have shifted yet again. In ruling no. 16 D.P.P. v Esso Australia Pty Ltd, Cummins J decided that such applications were criminal proceedings not civil proceedings. Warren J had earlier reached the opposite decision in Shoebridge v Pasta Master Pty Ltd
Section:
Feature
Cases:
Director of Public Prosecutions v Esso Australia Pty Ltd, Ruling No. 16[2001] VSC 401 ; Shoebridge v The Pasta Master Pty Ltd [2000] VSC 14 ;
Month:
May

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