Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) In deciding 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 proceeding.
(2) For that purpose, the parties to the proceeding or their lawyers may bring the court's attention to awards of damages for non-economic loss in those earlier decisions.
(3) This section does not change the rules for deciding other damages.
(4) In this section:
"non-economic loss" includes the following:
(a) pain and suffering;
(b) loss of amenities of life;
(c) loss of expectation of life;
(d) disfigurement.
Note Under the Motor Accident Injuries Act 2019
, the only damages that may be awarded for non-economic loss are damages for loss of quality of life (see that Act
,
s 242).