QLD: Abuse compensation award overturned

AAP General News (Australia)
02-12-1999
QLD: Abuse compensation award overturned

The Queensland Court of Appeal has overturned a half a million dollar compensation award to
a former newspaper employee who alleged she couldn't cope with her abusive and threatening
boss.

43-year-old MARILYN ABIGAIL ARNOLD, of Bundaberg, in south east Queensland, had won a
Supreme Court law suit against MIDWEST RADIO, owner of the far north Queensland free local
weekly newspaper, the Townsville Independent.

Ms ARNOLD had alleged she developed a depressive psychiatric illness because of constant
abuse from the paper's local manager GEOFF WILLIAMS while she was sales manager between August
and December, 1991.

In a split decision the Court of Appeal found a psychiatric opinion at trial may have been
based on inadmissible evidence.

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KEYWORD: ARNOLD (BRISBANE)

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