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Topic

Handover procedures

Legal area

Court

22 Aug 2023

REID v THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL (on behalf of The Department of Corrections) [2023] NZHC 2271

Citation

[2023] NZHC 2271
Court

High Court

Corrections breached its own COVID-19 procedures by accepting transfer of a prisoner without ensuring the nationally agreed handover procedure (NAP) had been followed, including offering a rapid antigen test, and by keeping the applicant in quarantine for an extra day without a reasonable explanation; other statutory challenges (s 75, regulation 72, s 60, s 6, s 29) were rejected on the facts.
16 Jun 2008

Executors of the Estate of Tangiora v Accident Compensation Corporation

Citation

[2008] NZACC 120
Court

District Court

Judge found that at handover Dr Vahdati-Bolouri failed to inform the incoming registrar of the full haematological findings and that further blood film results were pending; that omission breached the standard of care reasonably to be expected of a registered health professional in the circumstances and constituted medical error; on the balance of probabilities earlier administration of antibiotics (once the haematological indicators were known) would likely have altered the outcome, establishing causation; therefore the ACC decisions declining cover were quashed and cover for medical misadve…