Talbot-Price v Jacobs [2008] NSWCA 189

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: Talbot-Price v Jacobs [2008] NSWCA 189

HEARING DATE(S): 19 June 2008

JUDGMENT DATE: 12 August 2008

JUDGMENT OF: Ipp JA at 1; McColl JA at 103; Basten JA at 104

DECISION: Appeal dismissed with costs

CATCHWORDS: COURTS AND JUDICIAL SYSTEM - judgments - alteration of judgments - additional judgment - NEGLIGENCE - duty of care - scope of duty - landlord and tenant - duty to keep premises in a reasonable state of repair - effect of Residential - Tenancies (Residential Premises) Regulation 1995 - clause 12.2 - NEGLIGENCE - breach of duty - landlord and tenant - duty to keep premises in a reasonable state of repair - reasonableness of landlord's conduct - relevant - factors - where landlord directed tenant not to use certain parts of the premises - REAL PROPERTY - leases - residential leases - whether oral agreement void - effect of Residential - Tenancies Act 1987

Residential Tenancies Act 1987 LEGISLATION CITED: Residential Tenancies (Residential Premises) Regulation 1995 Residential Tenancies Act 1987 (WA)

CATEGORY: Principal judgment

Abela v Giew (1965) 65 SR (NSW) 485 Australian Safeway Stores Pty Ltd v Zaluzna [1987] HCA 7; 162 CLR 479 Jones v Bartlett [2000] HCA 56; (2000) 205 CLR 166 Koehler v Cerebos (Australia) Ltd [2005] HCA 15; 222 CLR 44 CASES CITED: New South Wales Department of Housing v Hume [2007] NSWCA 69; (2007) Aust Torts Rep 81-879 Ridis v Strata Plan 10308 [2005] NSWCA 246; (2005) 63 NSWLR 449 Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW v Dederer [2007] HCA 42; 81 ALJR 1773 Sibley v Kais (1967) 118 CLR 424 Todorovic v Moussa [2001] NSWCA 419; (2001) 53 NSWLR 463 Tucker v McCann [1948] VLR 222