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Assessing damages for domestic assistance – where are we now?
An update on recent cases and the principles that have emerged in relation to the threshold requirements for gratuitous assistance, satisfying the need, commingling tasks, periods of hospitalisation, when a claim for commercial care will be allowed in lieu of gratuitous assistance and discounts for vicissitudes. Plus, a useful checklist for assessing damages.
Significant cases, legislation or articles referred to
- Griffiths v Kerkemeyer [1977] HCA 45; (1977) 139 CLR 161
- Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW)
- Harrison v Melhem [2008] NSWCA 67; (2008) 72 NSWLR 380
- Civil Liability Legislation Amendment Act 2008 (NSW)
- Hill v Forrester [2010] NSWCA 170; (2010) 79 NSWLR 470
- Appleton v Norris [2014] NSWCA 311
- Ridolfi v Hammond [2012] NSWCA 67
- Boral Bricks Pty Ltd v Cosmidis; Boral Bricks Pty Ltd v DM & BP Wiskich Pty Ltd [2013] NSWCA 443
- Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 (NSW)
- Wright by his tutor Wright v Optus Administration Pty Limited [2015] NSWSC 160
- White v Benjamin [2015] NSWCA 75
- Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd v Roger Ward & Ors [2010] NSWSC 720; 79 NSWLR 657
- Wormleaton v Thomas & Coffey Limited (No 4) [2015] NSWSC 260
- CSR Limited v Eddy [2005] HCA 64; 226 CLR 1
- Miller v Galderisi (2009) NSWCA 353
- Berkeley Challenge Pty Ltd v Howarth [2013] NSWCA 370
- ECS Group (Australia) Pty Ltd v Hobby [2014] NSWCA 193
- Allard v Jones Lang Lasalle (Vic) Pty Ltd [2014] NSWCA 325
- Metaxoulis v McDonald’s Australia Ltd [2015] NSWCA 95
- Malec v JC Hutton Pty Ltd (1990) 169 CLR 638