PACIFIC POWER v ROYAL & ANOR [1999] NSWCA 350

Reported Decision : 47 NSWLR 366

New South Wales Court of Appeal CITATION : PACIFIC POWER v ROYAL & ANOR [1999] NSWCA 350 FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40349/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 6 July 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 28 September 1999

Pacific Power - Appellant PARTIES : Robert Royal - First Respondent Babcock Australia Limited - Second Respondent JUDGMENT OF : Sheller JA at 1; Cole AJA at 7; Foster AJA at 27

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Dust Diseases Tribunal LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : 17/92 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL OFFICER : Judge O'Meally

COUNSEL : MF Holmes QC/DP Robinson - Appellant A J Leslie QC - Respondents SOLICITORS : Goldrick Farrell Mullan - Appellants Turner Freeman - Respondents CATCHWORDS : DAMAGES - measure of - personal injuries - dust diseases - non-economic loss - interest - whether interest on award for non-ecomic loss part of that award or whether part of award for economic - whether interest on award for non-economic loss protected from reduction by s12D Dust Diseases Tribunal Act 1989 ACTS CITED : Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment (Dust Diseases & Other Matters) Act 1998 Workers' Compensation (Dust Diseases) Act 1942 Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) James Hardie & Co v Newton (1997) 42 NSWLR 729 Harris v Commercial Minerals Limited (1996) 186 CLR 1 Haines v Bendall (1991) 172 CLR 60 CASES CITED: Whitaker v Commissioner of Taxation (1998) 82 FCR 261 MBP (SA) Pty Ltd v Gogic (1991) 171 CLR 657 Metropolitan Meat Industry Board v Williams (1991) 24 NSWLR 54 Redding v Lee (1983) 151 CLR 117 Riches v Westminster Bank Ltd [1947] AC 390 DECISION : Appeal dismissed with costs.