The six-hour per week threshold for attendant care services under s 141B(3) of the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 (NSW) must be assessed on a weekly basis and cannot be averaged across weeks. A plaintiff in semi-retirement who demonstrates that ongoing disability limits their capacity to take on work they would otherwise have undertaken is entitled to an award for future economic loss under s 126, even where retirement was partly motivated by lifestyle reasons.
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