The Canberra Choral Society has been ordered to pay its 2018 president approximately $260,000 after it failed to rectify an "extraordinarily dangerous hazard" that caused the plaintiff to fall and crash through a screen, leaving her with numerous injuries.
Margaret Beatrice McIntosh, whose late husband was former CSIRO chief executive Sir Malcolm McIntosh, sued the society for damages after suffering numerous injuries from the fall in March 2018.
At the time, Lady McIntosh was walking on a temporary stage erected for a recital of the St Matthew Passion on the altar of St Christopher's Cathedral Parish, an ACT Magistrates Court judgment published on Tuesday states.
