Australia, April 14 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 14:
1. The plaintiff, when aged about 5 years, was severely injured in an accident on the jetty at Coffs Harbour on 30 September 2011. He fell some 4 metres off the jetty onto hard sand and, in the course of doing so, suffered a number of orthopaedic injuries, as well as a severe closed-head injury. Some of the orthopaedic injuries are permanent, particularly the fact that one of his legs is shorter than another.
2. The head injury has left a permanent residue, with damage having occurred to the temporo-parietal region of the brain, the midbrain and the cerebellar peduncles. Those brain injuries have left him with a permanent ...