The reference to 'sufficient connection' in Van Haeften v Caltex Oil is merely a description of the exercise of determining whether an injury arose out of or in the course of employment, not a separate legal test to be applied. A distinction may properly be drawn between an employer's general support for a social club and the employer's organisation of or encouragement to attend a particular activity; injury at a social club event outside work hours does not necessarily arise out of or in the course of employment merely because the employer supports the social club. On appeals within the Workers Compensation Commission, the statutory power to admit 'evidence in addition to or in substitution for' evidence below is broader than the 'fresh evidence' test, and practice directions cannot fetter this discretion.
The full text is available to signed-in members, including the 32 later cases that cite this judgment.
1 of the 32 citing cases carry a classified treatment. How each court treated it is available to signed-in members.