Tabloid Pty Ltd v Pringle

• 1. Damages
  2. › Personal injury
  3. › Assessment of damage
  4. › Loss of earning capacity
  5. › Past loss of earning capacity
  6. › Whether respondent totally incapacitated for work
  7. › Whether trial judge mischaracterised expert evidence as to capacity to work
• 1. Damages
  2. › Personal injury
  3. › Assessment of damage
  4. › Loss of earning capacity
  5. › Future loss of earning capacity
  6. › Global assessment approach
  7. › Whether 40% residual incapacity over 31 years supportable on evidence
• 1. Damages
  2. › Personal injury
  3. › Assessment of damage
  4. › Discount for contingencies
  5. › Pre-existing condition
  6. › Whether discount for contingencies applicable to past loss of earning capacity
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Standard of appellate review
  3. › Factual findings
  4. › Appellate restraint
  5. › Where trial judge failed to use or palpably misused advantage as trial judge
  6. › Mischaracterisation of expert evidence
  7. › Whether appellate court able to make substituted findings

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