YELDS v NURSES TRIBUNAL & ORS [2000] NSWSC 755

Reported Decision : 49 NSWLR 491

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : YELDS v NURSES TRIBUNAL & ORS [2000] NSWSC 755 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 30047/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 7 December 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 2 August 2000

Duncan Yelds (Plaintiff) PARTIES : The Nurses Tribunal (First Defendant) Health Care Complaints Commission (Second Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Adams J at 1

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COUNSEL : Mr P Roberts SC (Plaintiff) Mr P Neil SC (2nd Defendant) Stewart Levitt & Company (Plaintiff) SOLICITORS : I V Knight (1st Defendant) Mr D Swain (2nd Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Appeal from Nurses Tribunal - Section 4(2) Nurses Act 1991 - meaning of unsatisfactory professional conduct - nurse working as a counsellor - whether misconduct "in the practice of nursing" - procedural fairness - rule in Browne v Dunne LEGISLATION CITED : Nurses Act 1991 Medical Practitioners Act 1938 Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) CLR 336 Quidway v Brown 1984 NSWLR 100 Sherritt Gordon Mine Ltd v FCT (1976) 10 ALR 441 YZ Finance Co Pty Ltd v Cummings [1964] ALR 667 Lamond v Commissioner for Railways (1963) 80 WN (NSW) 1242 Re Gray; ex parte Marsh (1985) 62 ALR 17 Childs v Walton (unreported NSWCCA 13 November 1990, BC9001755) CASES CITED : Jacobsen v Nurses Tribinal & Anor (unreported Dunford J NSWSC 3 October 1997) Oceanic Life Limited and Anor v Chief Commissioner of Stamp Duties [1999] NSWCA 416 Hope v Bathurst City Council (1980) 144 CLR 1 R v Deputy Industrial Injuries Commissioner; ex parte Moore 1965 1 QB 465 Browne v Dunne (1893) 6 R 67 Allied Pastoral Holdings Pty Limited v Commissioner of Taxation [1983] 1 NSWLR 1 Smith v NSW Bar Association (1992) 176 CLR 256 Pettit v Dunkley 1971 1 NSWLR 376 DECISION : Appeal upheld, with costs.