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Medical and associated costs

These include the cost of medical and nursing care and other like costs, e.g. those associated with reasonable modification of a home to accommodate a wheelchair.

Both past and future costs may be claimed, but future costs cannot be proved and the court must estimate a likely sum. When assessing the costs associated with future care of the plaintiff, the court will rely on market values rather than inquiring as to an individual plaintiff's access to such care, for example from family members.

Van Gervan v Fenton (1992) 175 CLR 327.