Charter Hall Real Estate Management Services (NSW) Pty Limited v NSW

• 1. Workers Compensation
  2. › Recovery action
  3. › Indemnity under s 151Z
  4. › Whether occupier liable to indemnify employer as tortfeasor
  5. › Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW), s 151Z(1)(d)
• 1. Torts
  2. › Negligence
  3. › Duty of care
  4. › Occupier's liability
  5. › Foreseeability of risk
  6. › Whether occupier had actual knowledge of risk
  7. › Whether knowledge acquired by employee in former employment imputed to new employer
  8. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 5B(1)(a)
• 1. Torts
  2. › Negligence
  3. › Significance of risk
  4. › Whether risk was not insignificant
  5. › Whether obviousness of risk renders it insignificant
  6. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 5B(1)(b)
• 1. Torts
  2. › Negligence
  3. › Breach of duty
  4. › Reasonable precautions
  5. › Whether occupier breached duty by failing to install mechanism to secure locking bar
  6. › Evidential burden on defendant asserting alternative precautions discharged duty
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), ss 5B(1)(c), 5B(2), 5C

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