Health Care Complaints Commission v Lu [2023] NSWCATOD 51

Civil and Administrative Tribunal New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Health Care Complaints Commission v Lu [2023] NSWCATOD 51 Hearing dates: 12 April 2023 Date of orders: 01 May 2023 Decision date: 01 May 2023 Jurisdiction: Occupational Division Before: G Blake AM SC, Senior Member D Armitage, Senior Member (Professional) E Moore, Senior Member (Professional) A Gray, General Member Decision: (1) The respondent is reprimanded. (2) The respondent to pay the applicant's costs of the proceedings in the amount of $18,000.00. Catchwords: HEALTH – professional registration and discipline – nurse – where nurse is guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct – what protective action should be taken Legislation Cited: Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), s 64 Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), s 140 Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW), ss 3A, 39, 139B, 139E, 149, 149A, 149C, 150, 150A, 150D, Sch 5D cl 13 Cases Cited: Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336; [1938] HCA 34 Bronze Wing International Pty Ltd v SafeWork NSW [2017] NSWCA 41 Chen v Health Care Complaints Commission (2017) 95 NSWLR 334; [2017] NSWCA 186 Gautam v Health Care Complaints Commission [2021] NSWCA 85 Health Care Complaints Commission v Aref [2018] NSWCATOD 133 Health Care Complaints Commission v Do [2014] NSWCA 307 Health Care Complaints Commission v Haasbroek [2018] NSWCATOD 177 Healthcare Complaints Commission v Hollenbach [2019] NSWCATOD 118 Health Care Complaints Commission v Litchfield (1997) 41 NSWLR 630; [1997] NSWCA 264 Health Care Complaints Commission v Meneghetti [2020] NSWCATOD 39 Health Care Complaints Commission v Philipiah [2013] NSWCA 342 Health Care Complaints Commission v Picones [2018] NSWCATOD 56 Health Care Complaints Commission v Schmaman [2019] NSWCATOD 82 Health Care Complaints Commission v Wilcox [2020] NSWCATOD 10 Health Care Complaints Commission v Wong [2022] NSWCATOD 59 Lee v Health Care Complaints Commission [2012] NSWCA 80 Neat Holdings Pty Ltd v Karajan Holdings Pty Ltd [1992] HCA 66; (1992) 67 ALJR 170 Qasim v Health Care Complaints Commission [2015] NSWCA 282 Texts Cited: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, Code of conduct for nurses (March 2018) Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, Registered nurse standards for practice (June 2016) Category: Principal judgment Parties: Health Care Complaints Commission (Applicant) Xiaoping Lu (Respondent) Representation: Counsel: E Lambert (Applicant) P Dwyer (Respondent)