Case Analysis of Natalie Kathleen D'Arcy vs The Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane

Commercial Law

Introduction
Case laws are considered as one of the most prominent and useful form of the decided case that
helps the country to generate the standards that are applied in the court systems. Hence through
this they are able to achieve the objective of framing the regulations and legislations in the
country. The case related to the law of torts, negligence and the essential action for the
negligence, damage and the causations1. The current case is a popular case of Natalie Kathleen
D’Arcy, now known as the plaintiff vs The Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane,
now known as defendant. The court in which the proceeding were done was Supreme Court of
Brisbane. The date of judgement was 31 may 2017. The bench that decided the case includes
Byrne SJA.
Identification of the legal issue
The legal issue that was considered for the purpose was related to Natalie Kathleen D’Arcy who
was the plaintiff for the purpose of the issue and the corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of
the Brisbane who was considered as the defendant in the given case. The above case related to
various laws of torts where the plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a personal care
worker and there was problem while giving the instruction due to which the injury was caused to
the plaintiff2. Here the plaintiff was given the instruction to bring the wheelie from the car and
the guidelines were not provided to how to remove the wheelie from the car3. The argument that
was made by the plaintiff includes that the no instruction were provided to me for how to take
the wheelie out from the car and due to which the injury was caused to him. The argument that
was provided by the defendant that removing the lightweight wheelie walker was easy task and
was considered to be the simple for any person. It was the everyday task for him and it does not
required any training for taking it out4.
1 Dawson, Tony. "James ralfe and the early surveys at port Macquarie." Journal of the
Royal Australian Historical Society104.1 (2018): 62.
2 Matthews, Richard Ellis Ford. A critical appraisal of viral taxonomy. CRC Press, 2018.
3 Murphy, Jeffrie G. Philosophy of law: An introduction to jurisprudence. Routledge,
2018.
4 Keren-Paz, Tsachi. Torts, egalitarianism and distributive justice. Routledge, 2018.