Amaca Pty Ltd (under NSW administered winding up) v Raines; Seltsam Pty Ltd v Raines

• 1. Damages
  2. › Personal injury
  3. › Loss of capacity to provide gratuitous domestic services
  4. › Whether 'passive care' including supervision and protective attention constitutes 'gratuitous domestic services'
  5. › Whether damages available where services provided jointly with another person
  6. › Whether availability of alternative carer relevant to 'need' under s 15B(2)(d)
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 15B
• 1. Damages
  2. › Personal injury
  3. › Loss of capacity to provide gratuitous domestic services
  4. › Whether statutory obligation of workers' compensation insurer to provide care to dependant precludes award under s 15B
  5. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 15B(2)(d)
  6. › Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW), s 60AA
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Expert evidence
  3. › Admissibility
  4. › Whether geriatrician qualified to give expert opinion on number of hours of care provided
  5. › Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), s 79
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Appeals
  3. › Dust Diseases Tribunal
  4. › Nature of appeal on point of law
  5. › Whether failure to give adequate reasons available as ground of appeal
  6. › Whether point not raised at trial may be raised on appeal
  7. › Dust Diseases Tribunal Act 1989 (NSW), s 32(1)

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