P.I. Case Note

In honour of International Women's Day, here is my presentation from the 2026 Queensland Australian Lawyers' Alliance Conference, exploring some quite shocking indirect and direct discrimination against women that appears in our current legislation.

[2025] QSC 302; rr 681, 687, 702 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld); s.316 Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld); costs orders; PIPA defendant to pay costs as against employer defendant; costs on district court scale; costs of multiple counsel.

[2025] ICQ 025; ss. 232A - 232F Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld); application for reinstatement of employment.

[2025] QSC 250; r 681, 702 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld); breach of court orders and UCPR; indemnity costs order.

[2025] QIRC 307; Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld); scope of appeal before QIRC.

[2025] QIRC 299; s.32(5) Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld); psychiatric injury; multiple stressors; bullying; reasonable management action; Jones v Dunkel.

[2025] QIRC 298; Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld); accepted injuries; causation; competing expert medical opinions

[2025] QSC 285; Total Permanent Disability; TPD; court review of insurer decision.

[2025] QIRC 279; s.32(5) Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld); psychiatric injury; reasonable management action taken in a reasonable way; refusal to perform employment duties; disciplinary process.

[2025] QIRC 273; r.230 Industrial Relations (Tribunal) Rules 2011 (Qld); lapsed proceedings due to inaction; application to re-instate proceedings; what constitutes an "action" in proceedings.