Thorn v Monteleone; Thorn v Kelly

• 1. Negligence
  2. › Damages
  3. › Assessment of damages
  4. › Challenge to primary judge's evaluation of surveillance evidence and medical evidence
  5. › Credit-based factual findings
  6. › Whether appellable error established
  7. › [name withheld] v [name withheld] standard
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Standard of appellate review
  3. › Credit-based factual findings by trial judge
  4. › Whether findings contrary to compelling inferences or glaringly improbable
  5. › Fox v Percy (2003) 214 CLR 118
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Surveillance evidence
  3. › Weight to be given to post-accident surveillance footage
  4. › Whether surveillance footage proved deliberately false complaints
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Rule in [name withheld] v [name withheld]
  3. › Whether absence of cross-examination of expert witness precluded rejection of that evidence
  4. › Whether rule applies where matters in issue and notice given

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