Mar 29, 2016 | Administrative Law, Motor Accidents
Zahed v IAG Limited t/as NRMA Insurance [2016] NSWCA 55 Leeming JA 3. Subsection 94(5) of the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 (NSW) required the Assessor to “attach a brief statement to the certificate, setting out the assessor’s reasons for the assessment”....
Mar 25, 2016 | Costs, Legal Profession
Group Seven Ltd v Nasir & Ors [2016] EWHC 620 (Ch) (21 March 2016) The aggregate of the budgeted costs for Group Seven and ETS is £5,053,176. That seems to me to a disproportionate sum in relation to a claim for £7.08 million. As against that, counsel for Group...
Mar 22, 2016 | Civil Liability Act, Recent cases
Bankstown City Council v Zraika; Roads and Maritime Services v Zraika [2016] NSWCA 51 LOCAL GOVERNMENT – development consent – function of determining applications for development consent – whether local council as planning authority owed duty of care – nature...
Mar 22, 2016 | Administrative Law
Insurance Australia Ltd t/as Nrma Insurance v Pate [2016] NSWSC 278 [13] In proceedings such as this, reasons for a decision given by an administrative decision maker such as the assessor are not to be scrutinised by “over-zealous judicial review by seeking to discern...
Mar 17, 2016 | Civil Liability Act
Vincent v Woolworths Ltd [2016] NSWCA 40 31 In relation to s 5B(1)(b), Ms Vincent submitted that “the statutory notion [that] ‘the risk was not insignificant’ is directed towards the assessment of the probability of the occurrence of the risk. It is not directed to...
