NATIONAL TRANSPORT INSURANCE LIMITED v CHALKER & ORS [2005] NSWCA 62

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: NATIONAL TRANSPORT INSURANCE LIMITED v CHALKER & ORS [2005] NSWCA 62

HEARING DATE(S): 16 August 2004, 17 August 2004

JUDGMENT DATE: 15 March 2005

JUDGMENT OF: Mason P at 1; Tobias JA at 104; Grove J at 105

DECISION: Appeal allowed in part.

CATCHWORDS: Negligence - employer liability to indemnify - s3(1)(b) Employees Liability Act - independent contractor - employment status - deemed employment -Schedule 1 Cl 2(1) Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act - non-delegable duty of care - contributory negligence - Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946- motor vehicle insurance - contractual indemnity - costs - Sanderson order. (D)

Contracts Review Act 1980 Employees' Liability Act 1991 s3(1)(b) Industrial Relations Act 1996 s106 LEGISLATION CITED: Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 Workers Compensation Act 1926 s6(3)(a) Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998

Electric Power Transmission Pty Ltd v Cuiuli (1961) 104 CLR 177 Emoleum (Aust) Pty Ltd v Bond [2004] NSWCA 352 Gibb v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1966) 118 CLR 628 Hollis v Vabu Pty Ltd (2001) 207 CLR 21 Humberstone v Northern Timber Mills (1949) 79 CLR 389 National & General Co Ltd v State Government Insurance Office (Queensland) (1972) 46 ALJR 375 O'Connor v Commissioner of Government Transport (1954) 100 CLR 225 CASES CITED: OP Industries Ltd v MMI Workers Compensation (NSW) Ltd, Court of Appeal, unreported, 23 October 1998 Stevens v Brodribb Sawmilling Co Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 16 Suncorp Insurance and Finance v Workers' Compensation Board of Queensland [1996] 2 Qd R 289 TNT Australia Pty Ltd v Christie [2003] NSWCA 47 TNT Worldwide Express (NZ) Ltd v Cunningham [1993] 3 NZLR 681 Toll (FGCT) Pty Ltd v Alphapharm Pty Ltd [2004] HCA 52 Van Der Sluice v Display Craft Pty Ltd [2002] NSWCA 204