Medical Panels under the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) must now provide reasons meeting the standard required of any statutory decision-maker exercising a comparable quasi-adjudicative function, including findings on material questions of fact, identification of the evidence relied upon, and an intelligible explanation of the reasoning process. Where a Panel rejects expert medical opinion relied upon by a party, it must provide a comprehensible explanation for doing so. Certiorari to quash the opinion is the appropriate remedy where reasons are partly defective, rather than mandamus to compel further reasons.
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