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CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2002 - SECT 17A

Tariffs for damages for non-economic loss

17A Tariffs for damages for non-economic loss

(1) In determining damages for non-economic loss, a court may refer to earlier decisions of that or other courts for the purpose of establishing the appropriate award in the proceedings.
(2) For that purpose, the parties to the proceedings or their Australian legal practitioner may bring the court's attention to awards of damages for non-economic loss in those earlier decisions.
(3) This section does not alter the rules for the determination of other damages.



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