For the last four years, Kumar has been the maintenance person at the Cains Arena, a tennis oval with several tennis courts in Melbourne's Northern Suburbs. Kumar has a degree in grounds construction and keeping from the prestigious Homabay Polytechnic, a tertiary institute concerned with grounds construction and keeping in the United Kingdom, and was formerly on the executive council of the Australian Society of Grounds Builders and Keepers. The method Kumar uses to maintain the Cains Arena results in the surface of the court being particularly slippery especially when it rains as Kumar puts hard surface. As a consequence, the court requires less upkeep on a week-to-week basis than softer carpet or grass courts, and is therefore cheaper to maintain than those courts.

The method employed by Kumar to maintain the court does not have much support amongst other groundskeepers in Australia but is widely accepted amongst groundskeepers in the United Kingdom as the preferred method of preparing tennis grounds. It is well known that over the last two years, a substantial number of players have suffered injuries while playing at the Cains Arena, with such injuries being attributed to the hardness and slippery nature of the ground.

Molly is a junior tennis player. Molly hopes to be selected to play in the Australian Open in Melbourne next January 2025. Molly's last game of the season before the selections are played at one of Cain's open courts. It had rained for a couple of hours in the night, but Kumar had not substantially dried the court. During the game, Molly attempts to answer a particularly difficult service ball, but just as she was reaching out to answer the ball, she slips and fell so hard that she injures her ankle and requires a 30-minute medical break. The hardness and wetness of the ground result in more substantial injury than if the court had been made of carpet or grass.

During the medical break, Molly complains about the hard and wet surface. However, she also ignores her physiotherapist's advice, who checks her during the break, to wear support bandages around her ankles, arguing that they make her legs look too fat. After resuming the game, Molly is seen struggling with pain but she keeps playing, until while attempting to save a line ball, she again slips and falls so hard this time that she shatters her kneecap. Molly is taken from the ground on a stretcher.

Molly is told by her doctor that her ankle and knee will never heal properly and that 'things might not have been so bad for the ankle' if she'd worn the support bandages.

Disappointed by Molly's situation, her husband, Jeff, divorces her in search of a new rising talent.

Advise Molly as to her legal rights in negligence against Kumar.

In your answer try to cover all elements of the tort of negligence and any potential defences.