Marrickville Municipal Council v Moustafa [2001] NSWCA 372

Reported Decision : [2001] ACL Rep 300 NSW 97 (2001) 117 LGERA 291

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION : Marrickville Municipal Council v Moustafa [2001] NSWCA 372 FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40526/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 11 July 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 24 October 2001

PARTIES : Marrickville Municipal Council (Appellant) Yousef Moustafa (by his tutor Albert Moustafa) (Respondent) JUDGMENT OF : Priestley JA at 1; Powell JA at 63; Heydon JA at 64

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : District Court LOWER COURT DC 8757/97 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT Hosking DCJ JUDICIAL OFFICER :

COUNSEL : Mr J E Machonachie QC/Mr D B McGovern (Appellant) Mr J D Hislop QC/Mr P A Regattieri (Respondent) SOLICITORS : Phillips Fox (Appellant) Jones Staff & Co (Respondent) CATCHWORDS : Torts - Negligence - Occupier's liability - Duty - Breach - Causation - Whether duty, breach and causation established - Role of foreseeability in duty question - Where eleven-year-old boy discovered object buried in public park by pulling piece of string - Where boy created an explosion by placing object into a bottle with petrol and paper and setting paper alight - D Ashrafi Persian Trading Co Pty Limited v Ashrafinia [2001] NSWCA 243 Australian Safeway Stores Limited v Zaluzna (1987) 162 CLR 479 Avenhouse v Council of the Shire of Hornsby (1998) 44 NSWLR 1 March v Stramare (E. & M.H.) Limited [1991] 171 CLR 506 CASES CITED: Modbury Shopping Centre v Anzil (2000) 75 ALJR 164 Perre v Apand Pty Limited (1999) 198 CLR 180 Romeo v Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory (1998) 192 CLR 431 Sullivan v Moody [2001] HCA 59 Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Dioceses of Bathurst v Koffman (1996) Aust Torts R 81-399 DECISION : See paragraph 62