Partridge v Hobart City Council

• 1. Damages
  2. › Measure and remoteness of damages in actions for tort
  3. › Measure of damages
  4. › Deductibility of specific benefits and amounts
  5. › Pensions and superannuation benefits
  6. › Disability support pension
  7. › Whether future social security payments to be taken into account in reduction of damages for impairment of earning capacity
  8. › Social Security Act 1991 (Cth), Pt 3.14
• 1. Negligence
  2. › Occupier's liability
  3. › External steps on premises
  4. › Duty of care of landlords
  5. › Whether risk of slipping on wet tiled steps was reasonably foreseeable
  6. › Whether landlords required to inspect steps
• 1. Negligence
  2. › Duty of care
  3. › Solicitor's duty to visitors
  4. › Whether failure to post warning sign about slippery steps constituted breach of duty
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Appeal from findings of fact
  3. › Appellate review of credibility findings
  4. › Natural limitations of appellate court proceeding on the record

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