Top Hut Banoon Pastoral Co Pty Ltd t/as Trustee for the Wakefield Family Trust v Walker

• 1. Torts
  2. › Negligence
  3. › Liability of employer
  4. › Scope of employer's obligation to ensure safe system of work
  5. › Employee dispatched to premises of another
  6. › Whether scope of duty required physical inspection of step at accommodation
  7. › Whether employer breached duty
  8. › Whether causation established
• 1. Damages
  2. › Past and future economic loss
  3. › Assessment of earning capacity
  4. › Employee with poor employment history and pre-existing conditions
  5. › Whether award of past economic loss excessive
  6. › Whether award of future economic loss excessive
  7. › Whether discount for vicissitudes adequate
  8. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 13
• 1. Damages
  2. › Past domestic assistance and future commercial care
  3. › Gratuitous domestic assistance
  4. › Whether threshold under s 15(3) Civil Liability Act met
  5. › Future commercial care
  6. › Assessment of hours and discount for vicissitudes
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 15
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Failure of trial judge to refer to tendered medical evidence
  4. › Whether error material where no submissions advanced at trial relying on evidence

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