Limitation of ActionsPostponement of the bar - Extension of period - Cause of action in respect of personal injuries - Principles upon which discretion exercised - Deterioration of industrial deafness over a lengthy period of time such that action statute-barred in part, in any event.
Limitation Act 1974 (Tas), s5(3). Brisbane South Regional Health Authority v Taylor [1996] HCA 25; (1996) 139 ALR 1, applied. (Aust Dig Limitation of Actions [55])
Hearing
HOBART, 29 July 1997 (hearing), 22 August 1997 (decision)
