Verdict or judgment for amount over the jurisdictional limit
51 Verdict or judgment for amount over the jurisdictional limit
Where at a trial of any cause in the Court a verdict is returned for or a judgment is given for or the total amount that would have been recoverable if the claimant had not been at fault is found at an amount in excess of the jurisdictional limit, the Court shall find and record the amount of the verdict or judgment or, as the case may be, such total amount and the claimant is entitled to recover the full amount of the verdict or judgment, or as the case may be, of such total amount reduced in accordance with the Law Reform (Contributory Negligence and Tortfeasors’ Contribution) Act 1947, notwithstanding that the amount claimed does not exceed the jurisdictional limit.
Subsection (1) does not apply to or in relation to a trial of any personal action of the kind referred to in section 50(2).
[Section 51 amended: No. 40 of 1972 s. 9; No. 69 of 1976 s. 6; No. 118 of 1981 s. 10; No. 122 of 1984 s. 9; No. 53 of 1992 s. 11(2); No. 59 of 2004 s. 82(3).]
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