GIO General Limited v ABB Installation & Service Pty Limited & Ors [2000] NSWCA 118

Reported Decision : [2000] 19 NSWCCR 720

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION : GIO General Limited v ABB Installation & Service Pty Limited & Ors [2000] NSWCA 118 FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40253/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 22/03/2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 10 May 2000

GIO General Limited ABB Installation & Service Pty Limited PARTIES : GIO Workers Compensation (NSW) Limited MMI Workers Compensation (NSW) Limited TGI Australia Limited JUDGMENT OF : Mason P at 1; Beazley JA at 1; Heydon JA at 1

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Dust Diseases Tribunal LOWER COURT 47/96 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT Curtis J JUDICIAL OFFICER :

Appellant: J McIntyre SC First Respondent: B Ferrari COUNSEL : Second Respondent: G Little Third Respondent: B Hughes Fourth Respondent: J D Hislop QC Appellant: Hunt & Hunt First Respondent: Gillis Delaney Brown SOLICITORS : Second Respondent: GIO Australia Workers Compensation (NSW) Limited Third Respondent: A O Ellison & Co Fourth Respondent: Moray & Agnew CATCHWORDS : Workers Compensation - Dust Diseases - Employment to the nature of which the disease was due - s 151AB of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Dust Diseases Tribunal Act 1989 (NSW) Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW) CIC Workers Compensation (NSW) Ltd v Alcan Australia Ltd 91994) 35 NSWLR 169 CIC Workers Compensation (NSW) Ltd v Kellogg (Australia) Pty Ltd (1996) 40 NSWLR 422 MMI Insurance Compensation (NSW) Ltd v Baker (1997) 41 NSWLR 289 FAI Traders Insurance Co Ltd v HIH Winterthur Workers Compensation (NSW) Pty Ltd (1998) 45 NSWLR 257 CASES CITED: Tame v Commonwealth Collieries Pty Ltd (1947) 47 SR (NSW) 269 Smith v Mann (1932) 47 CLR 426 Blayney Shire Council v Lobley (1995) 12 NSWCCR 52 Commonwealth v Bourne (1960) 104 CLR 32 Bryer v Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board (1939) 39 SR (NSW) 321 R v City of Westminster Assessment Committee [1941] 1 KB 53 DECISION : Appeal dismissed with costs; Cross-appeal dismissed