THOMAS - v - SYDNEY TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT LIMITED & ANOR [2002] NSWSC 970

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : THOMAS - v - SYDNEY TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT LIMITED & ANOR [2002] NSWSC 970 revised - 29/10/2002 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 020471/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 30 September, 1,2,3,4,8,9, October 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 18 October 2002

Plaintiff - Scott Andrew THOMAS PARTIES : 1st Defendant - Sydney Training & Employment Ltd 2nd Defendant - Infocus Design Pty Ltd

JUDGMENT OF : Cooper AJ

P.Blacket SC; R. O'Keefe (Plaintiff) G.A. Seib (1st Defendant) COUNSEL : Mark Williams SC; E. Cox (2nd Defendant) C. Hoeben SC; R.Beasley (1st Cross Defendant) W.H. Nicholas QC; D.F. Villa (2nd Cross Defendant) Pike Pike & Fenwick (Plaintiff) McCulloch & Buggy (1st Defendant) SOLICITORS : Holman Webb Lawyers (2nd Defendant) Leigh Virtue & Associates (1st Cross Defendant) Ebsworth & Ebsworth (2nd Cross Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Labour Hire Agreement - Duty owed to worker by the hirer and the hiree - Foreseeable risk of injury - Intervening action of the plaintiff - Causation and remoteness - Novus actus interveniens - Public Liability Insurance Policy - meaning of "arising out of or in the course of employment of such person" meaning of an event "in connection with the business of the insured". LEGISLATION CITED : Workers Compensation Act 1970 ACI Metal Stamping and Spinning Pty Ltd v Boczulik (1964) 110 CLR 372 Crimmins v Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee (1999) 200 CLR 1 Bryan v Maloney (1995) 182 CLR 609 Sullivan v Moody (2001) 75 ALJR 1570 Raimondo v South Australia (1979) 23 ALR 513 Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils Group Apprentices v Statrona Pty Ltd & Ors BC 9505301 Schellenberg v Tunnel Holdings Pty Ltd [2000] HCA 18 Nair v Health Administration Corporation & Anor 1994 Australian Torts Reports 61832 AMP & anor v RTA & Anor 2001 NSWCA 186 and the judgment of the High Court (unreported, 2 December, 1997) CASES CITED : Bennett v The Minister of Community Welfare (1992) 176 CLR 408 Caterson v Commissioner for Railways (1973) 128 CLR 99 Dorset Yacht (1970) AC 1004 Elliott v Bickerstaff (1999)48 NSWLR 214 GIO General Limited v Newcastle City Council (1996) 38 NSWLR 558 Hollis v Vabu Pty Limited 181 ALR 263 March VE & M Stramare Pty Ltd (1991) 171 CLR 506 Monarch Insurance Co v Steel Mains Pty Limited (1986) VR 831 OP Industries Pty Limited v MMI Workers Compensation NSW Limited & ors 17 NSWCCR 193 Trans State Pty Limited v Rauk (2002) NSW ca 222 DECISION : See Judgment