NEWS-HR

A s.604 (Appeal of decisions) application by Stif Sekirski against a previous decision in favour of Scope (Vic) Ltd has been successful and the matter will now be reheard.

Life Without Barriers has a second matter (s.372 – Application to deal with other contravention disputes) alive at 10am (Troxell).

Life Without Barriers has a (s.739 – Application to deal with a dispute) being heard by Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers at 2.30pm.

Authorities were warned a schizophrenic and intellectually disabled woman had been sexually assaulted at a psychiatric hospital months before she fell pregnant there. The woman’s partner yesterday said that before the pregnancy, she had complained of being groped, pinned against walls and stalked by fellow ­patients at The Park Centre for Mental Health at Wacol, in Brisbane’s west. He provided documents showing he had raised concerns about her safety in a mixed-gender ward. “In the last five months, she has been sexually assaulted once, assaulted by other patients four times,” he wrote to the West Moreton Hospital and Health Service four months before the pregnancy. “You keep young female ­patients in … locked wards with male patients and expose them to sexual assaults.”

Quad Services Pty Ltd is once again defending a s.392 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Saunders at Coffs Harbour Court House 2 Beryl Street Coffs Harbour (Cohen).

Quad Services Pty Ltd is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Saunders on Level 3, 237 Wharf Road in Newcastle (Cohen).

Scope (Vic) Ltd is facing a (s.604 – Appeal of decisions) before the Full Bench in Court 1 – Level 6 in Melbourne (Sekirski).

After a year with interim chief executive officer Jo Sheppard, Toowoomba Clubhouse has appointed Deborah Bailey as its permanent CEO.