Stanberg v NSW

• 1. Negligence
  2. › Non-delegable duty of care
  3. › School liability
  4. › Sporting activities
  5. › Long jump competition
  6. › Whether failure to take reasonable precautions to ensure adequate sand in landing area
  7. › Whether failure to rake sand after each jump constituted breach
  8. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), ss 5B, 5I
• 1. Negligence
  2. › Damages
  3. › Future economic loss
  4. › Assessment of loss of earning capacity for injury to child
  5. › Whether injury likely to be productive of financial loss
  6. › Whether buffer damages should be awarded
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 13
• 1. Negligence
  2. › Damages
  3. › Non-economic loss
  4. › Assessment as proportion of most extreme case
  5. › Standard of appellate review
  6. › Whether assessment of 20% within range of reasonable opinion
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 16
• 1. Negligence
  2. › Causation
  3. › Factual causation
  4. › But for test
  5. › Whether negligent omission was necessary condition of occurrence of harm
  6. › Whether hard landing would have occurred but for inadequate sand
  7. › Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 5D(1)(a)

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