Housman v Camuglia

• 1. Contract
  2. › Damages
  3. › Consequential loss
  4. › Construction works causing damage to neighbour's land
  5. › Claim for lost rent
  6. › Whether apartments unlettable in light of damage to stairway
  7. › Significance of unchallenged engineering evidence that stairway safe
  8. › Whether trial judge misused evidence admitted on limited basis
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Requirement of leave
  3. › Appeal from judgment or order as to costs only
  4. › Whether appellants required leave for separate challenge to costs order where appeal as of right on substantive grounds
  5. › Construction of 'an appeal from a judgment or order as to costs only'
  6. › District Court Act 1973 (NSW), s 127(2)(b)
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 101(2)(c)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Adequacy of reasons
  3. › Inutility of inadequate reasons as ground of appeal where appeal proceeds by way of rehearing
• 1. Costs
  2. › Calderbank letter
  3. › Whether error in finding appellants unreasonably rejected offer
  4. › Significance of factual error in letter
  5. › Significance of offer being rejected before service of all evidence
  6. › House v The King error

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