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34 CATCHWORDS
Damges ~ fatal injury - claims under Compensation (Fatal
Injuries) Act (N.T.) - de facto wife and two children -
loss of support, solatium, consortium, care and guidance
and household services - appropriateness of two stage (pre- trial and post-trial) process of assessment of damages - whether adequate allowance made for contingencies/vicissitudes in assessment of pre-trial component of damages,.in particular, prospect of wife marrying or entering into another de facto relationship - whether damages for loss of consortium and solatium recoverable by de facto wife - whether damages for
solatium and loss of care and guidance recoverable by child
where not actual child of deceased - quantum of damages.
Compensation (Fatal Injuries) Act (N.T.) ss.4(2), 7, 8, 10, 13
State Government Insurance Office (Qld.) v. Biemann (1983) 49 A.L.R. 247 — con.
AUSTRALIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, DANNY O'BRIEN and WALTER WILLIAM HALL v. BESSIE PARSONS, REUBEN JOSEPH PARSONS and LESLIE MARK PARSONS by their next friend BESSIE PARSONS
No. NT 43 of 1983
Woodward, Neaves and Beaumont, JJ.
20 February 1985. Sydney.
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NORTHERN TERRITORY DISTRICT REGISTRY
GENERAL DIVISION
BETWEEN:
AND:
Judges making order: Date order made:
Where made:
THE COURT ORDERS THAT:
ed
No. NE 45 of 1983
ON APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory .
AUSTRALIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, DANNY O'BRIEN and WALTER WILLIAM HALL
Appellants
BESSIE PARSONS, REUBEN JOSEPH PARSONS and LESLIE MARK PARSONS by their next friend BESSIE PARSONS
Respondents
ORDER
Woodward, Neaves and Beaumont, Jd. 20 February 1985.
Sydney.
1. The appeal be dismissed.
2. The appellants pay the respondents' costs of the
appeal.
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NORTHERN TERRITORY DISTRICT REGISTRY GENERAL DIVISION
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