HealthX Group Pty Ltd v Palling (No 2) [2025] FCA 1300
24-10-25 / Michael Trim KC — Employment & Industrial
Michael Trim appeared for the respondent / cross-applicant, instructed by Carter Newell Lawyers. The respondent had been a senior executive employed by the applicant. She had resigned and taken up employment with a business that the applicant contended was a competitor. The applicant had commenced proceedings seeking to enforce a restraint…
31-7-25 / Michael Trim KC — Employment & Industrial, Inquiries & Coronial Inquests
Michael Trim, instructed by Baker & McKenzie appeared on behalf of Air Conditioning Manufacturer, Daikin Australia Pty Ltd, at an inquest into the death of Jordan Robert Crocker, who was fatally electrocuted while inspecting a Daikin ducted air conditioner system at a domestic location. The Coroner made a number of…
2-4-25 / Michael Trim KC — Employment & Industrial
Michael Trim represented the responsent, instructed by Carter Newell Lawyers. HealthX Group Pty Ltd v Palling [2025] FCA 298 concerned the applicant’s interlocutory application to amend its originating application and statement of claim to add a new equitable claim for relief, distinct from its existing contractual claim. The Court dismissed the…
Kelsey v Logan City Council & Ors (No.8) [2021] QIRC 114
1-3-21 / Michael Trim KC — Employment & Industrial
This case involved an Application by the former Chief Executive Officer of the Logan City Council against the Council and the former Mayor and Councillors. The proceedings alleged contraventions of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2010 and the Industrial Relations Act 2016 and sought declarations, penalties, damages and injunctive relief.…
Smith v Kelsey & Ors; Dalley & Ors v Kelsey & Ors [2020] QCA 55
27-3-20 / Michael Trim KC — Employment & Industrial
An appeal of an application to stay civil proceedings (involving claims under the Public Interest Disclosure Act and the Industrial Relations Act by the former CEO of the Logan City Council) pending the determination of criminal charges brought against the respondents in the proceedings after the evidence in the civil trial had been heard…
