Gomez v Woolworths Group Limited

• 1. Negligence
  2. › Occupier's liability
  3. › Duty of care to invitee
  4. › Slip and fall in supermarket
  5. › Systems of periodic inspection and cleaning
  6. › Whether systems adequate
  7. › Whether employees failed to implement systems
  8. › Whether reasonable precautions required additional system of hourly inspection
  9. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), ss 5B, 5D, 5E
• 1. Negligence
  2. › Causation
  3. › Factual causation
  4. › But for test
  5. › Whether plaintiff proved factual causation
  6. › Whether injury would have occurred absent negligent act or omission
  7. › Timing of inspection relative to hazard creation
  8. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 5D(1)(a)
• 1. Torts
  2. › Vicarious liability
  3. › Whether occupier's liability for breach of duty of care analogous to employer's vicarious liability
  4. › Whether employee's obligation to inspect extends beyond end of shift
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Appeals from findings of fact
  3. › Inferences from CCTV footage
  4. › Whether appeal court in same position as trial judge to draw inferences from CCTV footage

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