Cheng Fung Pty Ltd v Heloui [2005] NSWCA 222

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: Cheng Fung Pty Ltd v Heloui [2005] NSWCA 222

HEARING DATE(S): 24 June 2005

JUDGMENT DATE: 15 July 2005

JUDGMENT OF: Mason P at 1; Handley JA at 18; Giles JA at 19

DECISION: Appeal dismissed with costs.

CATCHWORDS: Negligence - employer's duty of care to provide safe system of work - avoiding exposure to unnecessary risk of injury - robbery of pizza delivery driver - order by mobile phone - new customer - caller rang again - call back by employer unanswered - whether employer should have called off delivery - evidence of recognised risk of robbery and circumstances of suspicion - including mobile phone orders from new customer when call back unanswered - finding of negligence open to judge. D

Anderson v Hotel Capital Trading Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 78; Chomentowski v Red Garter Restaurant Ltd (1970) 92 WN 1070; Czatyrko v Edith Cowan University [2005] HCA 14; Faucett v St George Bank (2003) Aust Torts Rep 81-699; CASES CITED: Kozjak v Fairfax Community Newspapers Ltd [2001] NSWCA 37; The Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Parramatta Ltd v Haghighat [2004] NSWCA 21; Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v Anzil (2000) 205 CLR 254; Tame v New South Wales (2002) 211 CLR 317; Wyong Shire Council v Shirt (1980-81) 146 CLR 40.

Cheng Fung Pty Ltd - Appellant PARTIES: Michel Youssef Heloui - Respondent

FILE NUMBER(S): CA 40482/04

C S Leahy SC & J H Gibson - Appellant COUNSEL: J Sharpe & J de Greenslaw - Respondent

Hunt & Hunt - Appellant SOLICITORS: Fallon Safetly Lawyers - Respondent