Docassemble – what a find!

I must confess. I have been looking for a bit of kit like Docassemble for a couple of months now. Lets have a quick looks at what it is. What is Docassemble? docassemble is a free, open-source expert system for guided interviews and document assembly. It provides a web site that conducts interviews with users. Based […]

Law for Biomedical Engineers – a snapshot of liability issues

Law for Biomedical Engineers – a snapshot of liability issues USYD 2020This is a presentation I delivered to the undergraduate biomedical engineers are Sydney University. The topic of the presentation is the ‘Law for Biomedical Engineers – a snapshot of liability issues’ and it summarises the scope of liability of biomedical engineers in practice.

Construing a policy of insurance

As the policy is a commercial contract, the Court should, in construing it, “ask what a reasonable businessperson would have understood [the relevant] terms to mean”: Electricity Generation Corporation t/as Verve Energy v Woodside Energy Ltd (2014) 251 CLR 640; [2014] HCA 7 (Electricity Generation) at [35]. The task is an objective one; it involves […]