Recent Cases

Della Bruna v Health Care Complaints Commission [2025] NSWCA 105 (16 May 2025) (Bell CJ, Kirk and Adamson JJA)


Catchwords:


OCCUPATIONS – Health practitioners – Professional misconduct – Where appellant prescribed somatropin off-label – Where clinical records inadequate – Requirement for NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal to provide adequate reasons – Requirement to afford procedural fairness by notifying appellant of allegations through amended complaint – Where findings of fact contradicted by contemporaneous clinical records