Zaya v RPS Manidis Roberts Pty Ltd and UGL Engineering Pty Ltd t/a Energised Alliance

• 1. Negligence
  2. › Personal injury
  3. › Slip and fall on building site
  4. › Occupier's liability and employer's liability
  5. › Whether formwork on staircase created hazard
  6. › Whether plaintiff proved indispensable primary fact on balance of probabilities
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Appeal from findings of fact
  3. › Standard of appellate review
  4. › Whether appellable error in assessment of evidence
  5. › Reliance on contemporaneous documents, objectively established facts and apparent logic of events
  6. › Fox v Percy (2003) 214 CLR 118
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Assessment of witness credibility
  3. › Lay witnesses giving evidence of events six years prior
  4. › Weight of contemporaneous documents
  5. › Inference from failure to call witnesses
  6. › Whether adverse inference properly drawn
  7. › Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), s 108(3)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Procedural fairness at trial
  3. › Whether finding of recent invention made
  4. › Whether foreshadowing required
  5. › Application to tender further evidence on appeal
  6. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 75A

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