Insurance Australia Limited trading as NRMA Insurance v Helou

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Certiorari
  4. › Jurisdictional error
  5. › Whether administrative tribunal failed to perform statutory task
  6. › Whether failure to adopt particular methodology in assessing damages constituted jurisdictional error
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 69
• 1. Damages
  2. › Assessment of damages
  3. › Pre-existing conditions
  4. › Disentangling causes of disability
  5. › Whether assessor required to separately apportion disability between two injured body parts before discounting for pre-existing condition
  6. › Whether discounting each head of damage for causal contribution of pre-existing condition is lawful alternative methodology
  7. › Watts v Rake
  8. › Purkess v Crittenden
  9. › Malec v JC Hutton
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Duty to disclose intended methodology
  4. › Whether assessor obliged to inform parties of intended approach to apportionment before declining to adopt expected methodology
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Reasons for decision
  3. › Adequacy of reasons
  4. › Brief statement of reasons
  5. › Whether assessor required to quantify allowance for pre-existing condition
  6. › Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 (NSW), s 94(5)
  7. › Claims Assessment Guidelines, cl 16.3

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