On 15 March 2011 the NSW Court of Appeal handed down its decision in Stephens v Giovenco; Dick v Giovenco [2011] NSWCA 53. The case involved difficult decisions about the duties of care owed by a landlord and his plumber in respect of the state of a partly decommissioned solar hot water system that caused the death by electrocution of a handyman retained by the landlord to fix a leaky roof and, if necessary, to remove the system