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Murphy v Bendigo Construction Services Pty Ltd

Murphy v Bendigo Construction Services Pty Ltd

Case [2020] VCC 727

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AGLC: Murphy v Bendigo Construction Services Pty Ltd [2020] VCC 727
Case: [2020] VCC 727
Decision Date: 20 February 2020

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Murphy v Bendigo Construction Services Pty Ltd [2020] VCC 727

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Haden Engineering Pty Ltd v McKinnon [2010] VSCA 69
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…Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013, s335(2)(d) Cases Cited: Barwon Spinners Pty Ltd & Ors v Podolak (2005) 14 VR 622; Haden Engineering Pty Ltd v McKinnon (2010) 31 VR 1; State of New South Wales v Moss [2000] NSWCA 133 Judgment:Leave granted to bring proceedings for damages for pain and suffering and loss of earning…
Tatiara Meat Co Pty Ltd v Kelso [2010] VSCA 12
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…Compensation Act 2013, s335(2)(d) Cases Cited: Barwon Spinners Pty Ltd & Ors v Podolak (2005) 14 VR 622; Haden Engineering Pty Ltd v McKinnon (2010) 31 VR 1; State of New South Wales v Moss [2000] NSWCA 133 Judgment:Leave granted to bring proceedings for damages for pain and suffering and loss of earning capacity…
Barwon Spinners Pty Ltd & Ors v Podolak [2005] VSCA 33
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…s of earning capacity – worker under 26 Legislation Cited: Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013, s335(2)(d) Cases Cited: Barwon Spinners Pty Ltd & Ors v Podolak (2005) 14 VR 622; Haden Engineering Pty Ltd v McKinnon (2010) 31 VR 1; State of New South Wales v Moss [2000] NSWCA 133 Judgment:Leave granted to bring proceedings…
Hunter v Transport Accident Commission [2005] VSCA 1
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…Legislation Cited: Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013, s335(2)(d) Cases Cited: Barwon Spinners Pty Ltd & Ors v Podolak (2005) 14 VR 622; Haden Engineering Pty Ltd v McKinnon (2010) 31 VR 1; State of New South Wales v Moss [2000] NSWCA 133 Judgment:Leave granted to bring proceedings for damage…
State of New South Wales v Moss [2000] NSWCA 133
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…arwon Spinners Pty Ltd & Ors v Podolak (2005) 14 VR 622; Haden Engineering Pty Ltd v McKinnon (2010) 31 VR 1; State of New South Wales v Moss [2000] NSWCA 133 Judgment:Leave granted to bring proceedings for damages for pain and suffering and loss of earning capacity.…
Malec v JC Hutton Pty Ltd [1990] HCA 20
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…ries from which the plaintiff has been proved to be suffering as a result of the defendant’s wrongful act.’ In Malec v J C Hutton Pty Ltd (1990) 169 CLR 638 at 639 Brennan and Dawson JJ said: “the ascertainment of earning capacity involves an evaluation of possibilities, not establishing a fact as a matter of history…
Jones v Schiffmann [1971] HCA 52
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…s J said that sometimes the assessment of damages involves “guess work rather than estimation”: Jones v Schiffman (1971) 124 CLR 303 at 308; see also Linsell v Robson [1976] 1 NSWLR 249 at 259 per Mahoney JA; Chaplin v Hicks [1911] 2 KB 786 at 792 per Vaughan Williams LJ. Lord Diplock described the factors underlying…
Graham v Baker [1961] HCA 48
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…ry. The compensable loss is not a loss of income but the loss of capacity to earn income in a manner productive of financial loss: Graham v Baker (1961) 106 CLR 340 at 347. The income earned before the injury is relevant, but only as an evidentiary aid in assessing damages for the loss of capacity to earn income: Paf…
Paff v Speed [1961] HCA 14
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…e earned before the injury is relevant, but only as an evidentiary aid in assessing damages for the loss of capacity to earn income: Paff v Speed (1961) 105 CLR 549 at 566 per Windeyer J. Evaluation of the worth of a loss of capacity to earn - of a lost chance to earn - is of its nature a more imprecise inquiry than…
Re Jacobs; ex parte O'Connor [1984] FCA 31
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…guess work rather than estimation”: Jones v Schiffman (1971) 124 CLR 303 at 308; see also Linsell v Robson [1976] 1 NSWLR 249 at 259 per Mahoney JA; Chaplin v Hicks [1911] 2 KB 786 at 792 per Vaughan Williams LJ. Lord Diplock described the factors underlying the assessment of damages for diminished earning cap…

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