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Judgment date
Case number
C17/2004
Before
Gleeson CJ, McHugh, Hayne, Callinan, Heydon JJ
Catchwords
Negligence – Standard of care - Breach - Eight year old child injured when pulled from flying fox in school playground by fellow student - Whether standard of care owed by school authority extends to the necessity to provide constant supervision over play equipment.
Negligence – Reasonable practicability - Whether constant supervision of dangerous equipment reasonably practicable.
Negligence – Causation - Whether a different system would have prevented the respondent's injuries.