A medical review panel under the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 commits jurisdictional error if it treats the absence of references to an injury in contemporaneous medical records as decisive of causation, rather than as one factor in determining whether the injury was caused or materially contributed to by the motor accident. The correct question is whether the accident was a contributing cause that is more than negligible, not whether contemporaneous treatment records document the specific injury. The 'no evidence' ground of review is not made out where the panel declines to make a finding of causal relationship rather than making a positive finding unsupported by evidence.
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