The complexity of questions arising under the Workers Compensation Act 1987 in a case involving two interrelated workplace accidents, including the potential for different verdicts on each accident and the consequential complications for damages assessment, may justify dispensing with a jury on the basis of a real prospect of miscarriage of justice. A large number of detailed jury questions, while not necessarily determinative alone, compounds the difficulty when the questions themselves are complex.
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