354-358 SYDNEY ROAD BALGOWLAH

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Determination of separate questions - Whether a determination of the proposed set of questions will facilitate the just, quick and cheap resolution of the proceedings - Compensation to Relatives Action - Assessment of damages detailed and complex - - Promotion of settlement unlikely - Costs of separate question significant - No reason to displace usual course - No point of general principle

COSTS - varying order - whether applicant should pay only one set of costs - where multiple respondents represented separately - where respondents' interests at odds in main proceedings - where costs order related to appeal on discrete question - where respondents' interests identical on discrete question - where applicant gave advance notice of objection to more than one set of costs - where objection not raised before trial judge - Uniform Civil Procedure Rules, r 51.4

DAMAGES - claims under the Compensation to Relatives Act 1897 (NSW) - limit on the "claimant's" income to which a court may have regard when calculating future loss of economic support - whether limit applies to claims under the Compensation to Relatives Act - whether deceased person is a "claimant" - whether appropriate for court to insert words not used by the Parliament - Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 12 STATUTORY INTERPRETATION - principles - whether words may be read into a provision to qualify the literal meaning - proper scope of a purposive construction WORDS & PHRASES - "claimant" - "relate to"