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Declaration of interest: the author and Stacks Law Firm acted for the plaintiff in this case.

In 1974 a woman secured an office job in a large Australian organisation. Her duties required her to perform typing work on a coding machine.

She was provided with a metal chair that had a padded seat, a backrest and a left-sided armrest, but not a right-sided armrest. The employee’s keyboard was positioned at lower than elbow height on her right-hand side, thereby causing the woman’s posture to bend to the right.

The employee had been trained to perform around 10,000 keystrokes per hour. She worked at her own speed and her job was very repetitive.

The employee had an option of moving the keyboard to a higher position and her employer had told her to do this, but she ignored her employer’s instructions and kept using the keyboard in a way which ultimately led to the injuries.

On 30 March 2017, the NSW Motor Accidents Injuries Bill 2017 was passed by parliament. This bill is significant as it replaced the previous compulsory third party motor accidents scheme under the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999, therefore changing the ways in which injured parties are compensated for motor accidents. Reviewing the processes and legislation that cover you […]

A study by Macquarie University has found changes the government made to the NSW workers compensation scheme four years ago have given only limited help to injured workers wanting to return to work. Professor Ray Markey of the university’s Centre for Workforce Futures led the study, titled The Impact on Injured Workers of Changes to […]

Four leading Taree lawyers from Stacks Law Firm have been appointed to key new posts helping people with WorkCover claims. They will provide free legal advice to injured workers who have had their claims rejected or challenged by insurers. Justin Stack, Grant Avery, Erin Woodward and Di Branch have been appointed approved legal service providers […]

NOTE: If you are injured in an accident that could have been prevented with proper care by authorities such as RailCorp you are entitled to compensation. As this story in The Sun-Herald shows, Stacks is helping blind man Mark Bartley after he fell into a gap between carriages at a train station. The newspaper revealed […]