Published in the Health Law Bulletin June 2018 edition.

Published in Health Law Bulletin June 2018 edition.

Queensland and South Australia have recently introduced laws requiring labour hire firms operating in those States to obtain a licence.  Victoria's laws passed the lower house in February 2018 however are yet to pass the Upper House in that State.

This Health Law Bulletin discusses issues such as:

• Corporate and Clinical Governance for the health and aged care sectors;
• Aged care quality reforms;
• Exclusion zones for reproductive health facilities;
• Recent cases such as Sparks v Hobson, Gray v Hobson [2018] NSWCA 29; and
• Updates to the National police check application process.

On the 25^th May 2018 the EU introduced a unified regulation to deal with the protection of data. This regulation is known as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Holman Webb is proud to announce that John Wakefield has been awarded Australian Arbitrator of the Year in the Australasian Law Awards 2018.

Despite concerns raised by liquidators and experts locally and abroad, the Federal court has confirmed its view that a set-off under section 553C of the Corporations Act can be utilised in an unfair preference claim. 

Congratulations to Partner, Corinne Attard, who has once again been selected by Who’s Who Legal: Franchising as one of the pre-eminent leading franchise lawyers in Australia.   

On 12 February 2018, the NSW Government released the report of former NSW Supreme Court Judge Patricia Bergin, SC  into the fundraising activities of RSL NSW, RSL Welfare and Benevolent Institution and RSL LifeCare.

On 22 November 2017, the Victorian Government became the first State in Australia to pass voluntary assisted dying legislation which is due to commence in 2019.