MTH v NSW

• 1. Evidence
  2. › Certificate of conviction
  3. › Admissibility in civil proceedings
  4. › Whether certificate of conviction admissible to prove elements of offences
  5. › Effect of ss 91, 92 and 178 of Evidence Act 1995 (NSW)
  6. › Whether special leave application constitutes 'review or appeal' within s 92(2)(a)
  7. › Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), ss 91, 92, 178
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Tendency evidence
  3. › Civil proceedings
  4. › Whether certificate of conviction had significant probative value for tendency purpose
  5. › Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), ss 97, 100, 135
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Self-represented litigants
  4. › Duty of judge to alert litigant in person to evidentiary pathway
  5. › Whether primary judge denied procedural fairness by failing to alert appellant to admissibility of certificate of conviction
• 1. Negligence
  2. › Duty of care
  3. › Guardian and ward
  4. › Non-delegable duty
  5. › Exercise of special statutory power
  6. › Whether State's exercise of power so unreasonable that no authority could properly consider it reasonable
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 43A
  8. › Child Welfare Act 1939 (NSW)
  9. › Adoption of Children Act 1965 (NSW)

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