Cockatoo Dockyard v Browne [2001] NSWCA 58

Reported Decision : (2001) 21 NSWCCR 544

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION : Cockatoo Dockyard v Browne [2001] NSWCA 58 FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40639/99; 40816/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 29 November 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 5 April 2001

Cockatoo Dockyard Pty Limited PARTIES : v Philip John Browne (Executor of Late David Charles Browne) & Anor JUDGMENT OF : Priestley JA at 1; Handley JA at 2; Heydon JA at 19

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Dust Diseases Tribunal LOWER COURT DDT 26/99 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT Johns J JUDICIAL OFFICER :

T G R Parker (for appellant in the appeal and applicant in leave application) COUNSEL : A J Leslie QC/A O Leslie (for respondent in appeal, cross appellant in cross-appeal and opponent in application) Mr Kazera Sub App for Commonwealth observing Allen Allen & Hemsley (Appellant) SOLICITORS : Turner Freeman (Respondent 1) Australian Government Solicitor (Respondent 2) CATCHWORDS : NEGLIGENCE - personal injury - breach of duty - causation - remoteness - PRACTICE & PROCEDURE - motions for summary dismissal of appeals discouraged LEGISLATION CITED : Dust Diseases Tribunal Act Bonnington Castings v Wardlaw [1956] AC 613 Nicholson v Atlas Steel Foundry and Engineering Co Ltd [1957] 1 WLR 613 Quinn v Cameron & Robertson Ltd [1958] AC 9 McGhee v National Coal Board [1973] 1 WLR 1 CASES CITED: Bennett v Minister of Community Welfare (1992) 176 CLR 408 Sutherland Shire Council v Heyman (1985) 157 CLR 424 Commonwealth of Australia v McLean (1996) 41 NSWLR 389 Mt Isa Mines v Pusey (1970) 125 CLR 383 Doherty v Liverpool District Hospital (1991) 22 NSWLR 284 DECISION : Appeal and cross-appeal each dismissed. Orders made