AB v XYZ Pty Ltd

• 1. Accident Compensation
  2. › Workplace injury
  3. › Claim for compensation
  4. › Post-traumatic stress disorder and depression
  5. › Injury arising out of or in the course of employment
  6. › Whether applicant proved alleged sexual assaults, harassment and abuse
  7. › Whether trial judge erred in credit findings
  8. › Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic), s 82(1)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Leave to appeal
  3. › County Court to Court of Appeal
  4. › Credit findings of trial judge
  5. › Whether proposed appeal has real prospect of success
  6. › Appellate review of findings dependent on credibility assessment
  7. › Whether findings glaringly improbable or contrary to compelling inferences
  8. › Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic), s 14C
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Standard of proof
  3. › Civil proceedings involving serious allegations
  4. › Application of Briginshaw principles
  5. › Whether gravity of allegations to be taken into account
  6. › Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), s 140(2)
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Credit
  3. › Lies told by a party
  4. › Whether lies may constitute admission by conduct in civil proceedings
  5. › Distinction between use of lies for credit and as evidence of the matter alleged

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