The jumping castle at the centre of a tragic incident at a Tasmanian school where six school children died will be examined ahead of a court hearing for alleged criminal workplace breaches.
Chace Harrison,Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones,Zane Mellor,Addison Stewart,Jye Sheehan and Peter Dodt died after in Devonport in December 2021.
Rosemary Anne Gamble,the owner of Taz-Zorb which supplied and set up the castle,has pleaded not guilty to failing to comply with workplace health and safety requirements.
Gamble’s lawyer,Christopher Dockray,said the defence team had engaged a geotechnical engineer and inflatable device expert.
Mr Dockray said the pair would inspect the castle as well as the school’s oval and prepare reports by the end of June.
“Expert evidence is going to be the cornerstone of this case I suspect,” he said.
The court was told a hearing would likely take two weeks,with Magistrate Duncan Fairley setting down September 2 as a tentative start date.
Mr Dockray and crown prosecutor Madeleine Wilson noted sensitivities around where the castle would be placed for examination.
“If it is visible to the public in Devonport,that would be quite traumatic for the community,” Mr Dockray said.
AAP