NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : (2002) Aust Torts Reports 81-650
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION : NSW Sugar Milling Co-Operative Limited v Michael Gortley Cheetham [2002] NSWCA 50 FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40135/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 10/12/01 JUDGMENT DATE : 5 March 2002
PARTIES : NSW Sugar Milling Co-Operative Limited (Appellant) Michael Gortley Cheetham (Respondent) JUDGMENT OF : Mason P at 1; Meagher JA at 2; Einstein J at 3
LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : District Court LOWER COURT DC5175/97 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT Phegan DCJ JUDICIAL OFFICER :
COUNSEL : Mr J D Hislop QC, MJ Gollan (Appellant) KW Andrews (Respondent) SOLICITORS : Dexter Healey (Appellant) Kalpage & Co. (Respondent) CATCHWORDS : Practice and Procedure - Leave to appeal - Extension of limitation period in which to bring proceedings for damages for personal injury arising from industrial deafness suffered during employment - Whether just and reasonable to extend limitation period - Whether inadequate weight given to prejudice occasioned by claimant if limitation period extended - Proper construction of s60G(2) of the Limitation Act 1969 (NSW) - Relevant consideration of putative defendant's position Banking Act 1974 (Cth) LEGISLATION CITED : Factories (Health and Safety Hearing Conservation) Regulation 1979 Limitation Act 1969 Bates v Endrey-Walder (unreported, 30 July 1998, NSWCA, BC 9804812) BHP Steel (AIS) Pty Ltd v Lakovski (unreported, 24 November 2000, NSWCA, BC 200007381) [2000] NSWCA 334 Brisbane South Regional Health Authority v Taylor (1996) 186 CLR 541 CASES CITED: CSR Ltd and NSW Sugar Milling Co-op Ltd v Rendell (unreported, 7 August 1996, NSWCA, CA40090/96, BC 9603437) George v The Estate of the late Harry Richard Bailey (1998) AustTortsR 81 - 455 Holt v Wynter (2000) 49 NSWLR 128 Sydney City Council v Zegarac (1998) 43 NSWLR 195 Talga Ltd v MBC International Ltd (1976) 133 CLR 622 DECISION : The application for leave to appeal should be upheld. The appeal should be upheld.
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