A medical assessment certificate identifying an injury resulting from more than one event or incident is not, for that reason alone, invalid under the NSW workers' compensation scheme. A letter purporting to be a pre-filing statement under s 315(1) of the Workplace Injury Management Act does not constitute one if it neither annexes nor identifies the evidence on which the claimant seeks to rely. The question whether collateral challenge to a medical assessment certificate is available in District Court work injury damages proceedings was left open.
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