Health Care Corporation Pty Ltd t/as Wollongong Private Hospital v Cleary

• 1. Negligence
  2. › Personal injury
  3. › Hospital patient conveyed in bed
  4. › Bed colliding with wall
  5. › Challenges to factual findings
  6. › Foreseeability of risk
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 5B
• 1. Negligence
  2. › Causation
  3. › Whether impact caused patient's symptoms
  4. › Conflicting expert evidence on causation
  5. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 5D
• 1. Damages
  2. › Assessment of damages
  3. › Past economic loss
  4. › Assessment of earnings but for negligence
  5. › Future economic loss by way of buffer
  6. › Whether buffer for future medical expenses justified
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 13
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Standard of appellate review
  3. › Review of factual findings of trial judge
  4. › Whether findings glaringly improbable or contrary to compelling inferences
  5. › Fox v Percy (2003) 214 CLR 118

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