Smith v Sydney West Area Health Service

• 1. Tort
  2. › Negligence
  3. › Breach of duty
  4. › Reasonable foreseeability of risk
  5. › Hospital nurse injured during patient transfer
  6. › Whether risk of patient falling or losing balance reasonably foreseeable
  7. › Whether trial judge required too much by way of specific knowledge of patient's propensity to fall
• 1. Tort
  2. › Negligence
  3. › Breach of duty
  4. › Standard of care
  5. › Two-person patient transfer
  6. › Whether wardsman negligent in releasing patient without warning
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Standard of appellate review
  3. › Findings of fact
  4. › Whether trial judge erred in approach to foreseeability

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