An evaluative conclusion by a trial judge that employment was a 'significant contributing factor' to injury under s 82(2C)(c) of the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) is not susceptible of attack on an appeal confined to questions of law under s 52(1), provided the judge took into account the mandatory s 5(1B) factors and gave adequate reasons. A trial judge who states that the s 5(1B) factors have been taken into account, and whose reasons demonstrate engagement with the relevant evidence, will not be found to have erred merely because the reasons do not contain a detailed excursus on each factor.
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