NSW Caselaw
District Court New South Wales
Medium Neutral Citation: Brown v Walker [2023] NSWDC 566 Hearing dates: 14 September 2023 Date of orders: 15 December 2023 Decision date: 15 December 2023 Jurisdiction: Civil Before: Waugh SC DCJ Decision: (1) Judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $995,387 (2) The defendant is to pay the plaintiff's costs Catchwords: TORTS – child sexual assault – assessment of damages – aggravated damages Legislation Cited: Civil Liability Act 2002 Crimes Act 1900 (Historical) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules, 2005 Cases Cited: AA v PD [2022] NSWSC 1039 Cheng v Farjudi (2016) 93 NSWLR 95 CLR 1 Gray v Motor Accident Commission (1998) 196 CLR 1 MBP (SA) Pty Ltd v Gogic (1991) 171 CLR 657 Metropolitan Meat Industry Board v Williams (1991) 24 NSWLR 54 Purkess v Crittenden (1965) 114 CLR 164 SR v Trustees of the De La Salle Brothers [2023] NSWSC 66 Watts v Rake (1960) 108 CLR 158 Wilson v Peisley (1975) 7 ALR 571, (1975) 50 ALJR 207 Withyman v State of NSW [2013] NSWCA 10 Texts Cited: Assessment of Damages for Personal Injury and Death" (5th edition, 2021 by Luntz and Harder) Category: Principal judgment Parties: Rebecca Brown (Plaintiff) Anthony Stephan John Walker (Defendant) Representation: Counsel: Mr R Royle (Plaintiff) No Appearance (Defendant)
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate