Thursday, 12 March 2026
Chair
Richard Perry KC, George Street Chambers
Injury From Work-related Violence and Aggression: Foreseeability, Breach and Causation
Workers in industries such as residential aged care, mental health, disability care and youth work have a known risk of being exposed to work related violence and aggression.
Employers are required to manage their duty to employees with the rights of persons in their care, often within a strict regulatory environment
- The importance of understanding the background context to these claims
- The impact of the regulatory environment applying to these industries
- Published guidelines from Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
- Pleading and proving breach ( section 305B and 305C of the WCRA)
- Pleading and proving causation (section 305D of the WCRA)
- Contributory negligence arguments
Presented by Justin Harper, Barrister, Darrow Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on QLD legislation
Presenters
Richard Perry KC, George Street Chambers
Richard Perry KC was admitted to the Queensland Bar in 1983 and took silk in 2004. He has extensive experience in commercial and civil litigation, regularly appearing in major trials, the Court of Appeal, and the Federal Court. His practice also includes statutory prosecutions, industrial relations matters, and legal profession disciplinary cases. Richard has acted in numerous Commissions of Inquiry, including the Home Insulation Inquiry, and has served as Counsel Assisting the Coroner. He was the inaugural Public Interest Monitor and later the acting Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commissioner. He has also conducted numerous mediations in Supreme Court matters.
Justin Harper, Barrister, Darrow Chambers
Justin Harper holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland. He was called to the Bar in 2005 and practises in tort law, public law and coronial inquests. Justin represents clients in all areas of personal injury law, acting for both plaintiffs and defendants. He has represented numerous victims of institutional child abuse in their compensation claims. Justin has acted as Counsel Assisting in numerous coronial inquests, including at Inquests into deaths arising from police pursuits and other deaths in custody. He represented family members at the Inquest into the Death of Hamid Khazaei, relating to the Manus Island offshore detention centre, and the Inquest into the Death of Omid Masoumali, relating to the Nauru offshore detention centre. He represented the patients of Dr Jayant Patel and the Bundaberg Hospital Support Group at the Queensland Public Hospitals Commission of Inquiry and the mothers of deceased adolescents following closure of a psychiatric facility at the Barrett Adolescent Centre Commission of Inquiry. Justin began his legal career as an articled clerk and then solicitor in criminal law and personal injury, and then worked in senior policy roles within the Queensland Government. He is a past president of the Queensland branch of the Australian Lawyers’ Alliance, a national board member of the Australian Lawyers’ Alliance and was the Queensland representative on the board of the Professional Standards Council in 2006 and 2007. He is active in his local community, is an avid Brisbane Lions fan and a golf and cricket tragic.
