Fund management fees awarded to brain-injured plaintiffs incapable of managing their affairs should not include an allowance for managing the fund management fees themselves or for managing income earned by the fund. The corpus for calculating fund management fees should be reduced only by existing legal liabilities at the time of settlement, not by amounts that may be paid out early. Where the rates of a private trustee and the NSW Trustee differ, the court may adopt a reasonable intermediate figure rather than being bound to either rate. The case was treated as a test case to establish relevant principles for fund management fee calculations.
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