Value Constructions Pty Ltd v Badra [2024] NSWCA 181

NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Duty of occupier to employee of subcontractor — Whether it was reasonable for occupier to assume that that a competent contractor would have addressed the risk — Occupier owes a duty to use reasonable care to avoid physical injury to individuals on site — Occupier was negligent

NEGLIGENCE — CLA s 5D — Whether the negligence was a necessary condition of the occurrence of the harm — Proximate cause irrelevant