NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: Fitness First Australia Pty Ltd v Vittenberg [2005] NSWCA 376
HEARING DATE(S): 6 September 2005
JUDGMENT DATE: 4 November 2005
JUDGMENT OF: Handley JA at 1; Giles JA at 2; Bryson JA
DECISION: Appeal dismissed with costs.
CATCHWORDS: Negligence - injury when using a circuit class machine - misused in reasonable belief it was a different kind of machine - whether sign on machine sufficient care against risk of injury - in circumstances of use in haste in a circuit class, not sufficient - whether general enquiry whether members of class had done circuit classes before sufficient care aginst risk of injury - not sufficient - whether error in assessment of non-economic loss and "buffer" for economic loss - no error.
Briscoe-Hough v AVS Australian Venue Security Services Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 51; Dell v Dalton (1991) 23 NSWLR 528; Hornsby Shire Council v King [2005] NSWCA 67; CASES CITED: Nominal Defendant v Lane [2004] NSWCA 51; Penrith City Council v Parks [2004] NSWCA 201; Wyong Shire Council v Shirt (1980) 146 CLR 40.
Fitness First Australia Pty Ltd - Appellant PARTIES: Maria Vittenberg - Respondent
FILE NUMBER(S): CA 40799/04
J Sexton SC & G Grant - Appellant COUNSEL: G Melick SC & K Pierce - Respondent
Lee & Lyons - Appellant SOLICITORS: Terrence Stern - Respondent
LOWER COURT JURISDICTION: District Court
LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S): DC 8050/02
LOWER COURT JUDICIAL OFFICER: Ashford J
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COURT OF APPEAL CA 40799/04 DC 8050/02
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