The only evidence that Ms.L was bullied by Mr. CM was provided by a psychiatrist, Dr. Oldtree Clarke.
Dr. Clarke never met Mr. CM . He spoke to him only once on the telephone, four and a half years ago.
James Ricketson
58 Braidwood Road
Goulburn 2580
0488543555
Dr. Thomas Oldtree Clarke
482 Bourke St.
Surry Hills
NSW 2010 20th October 2023
Dear Dr Clarke
I am an investigative journalist preparing an article about a workers compensation matter currently being dealt with by the Personal Injuries Commission. The case number is:
re XXXX v Workers Compensation Nominal Insurer (icare)
In the interests of transparency I am copying this letter to iCare and to the PIC.
I am sure you will appreciate that I have a duty, as a journalist, to make sure that I make no factual errors in what I write. Please let me know if any of the following are incorrect:
- You examined CM on 22nd. July 2020
- This examination too place via a teleconference call
- You conducted only one teleconference with Mr. M
- You have never met Mr M in person
- You assessed Mr. M for psychiatric injuries deemed to have occurred 9 months previously, on 28th October, 2019
- You are aware that Mr. M stopped working for SA on 15th September 2019
- You believe that Mr. M told you the truth during this one teleconference call
- At the time of this call you were not privy to Mr. Michael's medical and psychiatric files and so were not aware of his medical and psychiatric history
- Mr. M provided you with no evidence of how Ms.L's 'bullying' manifested itself. You accepted the truth of Mr. Michael's allegations at face value, asking for no examples of her 'bullying'
- You are aware that two days prior to the date of Mr. M's alleged injuries - 26th October - a Police Report was prepared alleging that Mr. M had threatened to kill Ms.L, and that his threatening behaviour was witnessed by three passers-by who gave statements to the police
- You are now aware that an iCare investigator found, far from underplaying Mr. M, that SA had overpaid him; that Mr. M lied to you
I will correct any factual errors you point out to me.
yours sincerely
James Ricketson
cc iCare, PIC
James Ricketson
58 Braidwood Road
Goulburn 2580
0488543555
Dr. Thomas Oldtree Clarke
482 Bourke St.
Surry Hills
NSW 2010
5th November 2023
Dear Dr Clarke
Further to my letter of 20th October 2023.
If there is anything that is factually incorrect in what I have written below, please let me know.
"The only evidence that 'Mr. Jones' was bullied by 'Ms. Smith' is to be found in a report written by Dr. Thomas Oldtree Clark regarding his examination of 'Mr. Jones' on 22nd. July 2020. This almost exactly a year since Mr. Jones allegedly sustained the 26th July 2019 'injury' at the hands of Ms. Smith that rendered him, according to Ms. Haddock's PIC 'Statement of Reasons', incapable of working this past four years,
There is some confusion here, however, as 28th October, 2019 is also nominated by Dr. Clark as the date of the 'injury' - sustained by Mr Jones six weeks after his last day of work at SA, and two days after a police report was written regarding Mr. Jones' threat to kill Ms. Smith.
There is nothing in Dr. Clarke's report to suggest that Mr Jones provided him with any evidence of bullying by Ms. Smith, yet Dr. Clark writes with confidence that Mr. Jones' 'injury' was caused by Ms. Smith. Dr. Clark made this assessment despite not having access to 30+ years of psychiatric reports about Mr. Jones, and despite never meeting his client. Dr. Clark's assessment is based on one teleconference call with Mr. Jones - providing Ms Haddock with the only evidence of bullying she had at her disposal when she determined that Ms. Jones must pay $168,000 to iCare.
If I receive no reply to this letter I will work on the presumption that it is factually correct.
yours sincerely
James Ricketson
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