Hee v State Transit Authority of New South Wales

• 1. Workers Compensation
  2. › Weekly compensation
  3. › Entitlement to weekly payments
  4. › Workers with highest needs
  5. › Special provision under s 38A
  6. › Whether s 38A applies only where entitlement to amount of weekly compensation determined under ss 36, 37 or 38
  7. › Whether zero is an 'amount' for purposes of s 38A
  8. › Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW), ss 32A, 33, 35(2), 37, 38A
• 1. Workers Compensation
  2. › Weekly compensation
  3. › Current work capacity
  4. › Definition of 'pre-injury employment'
  5. › Whether worker who returns to full duties but cannot perform same level of overtime has returned to 'pre-injury employment'
  6. › Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW), s 32A
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Tribunals
  3. › Workers Compensation Commission
  4. › Appeal from arbitrator to President
  5. › Scope of appeal limited to error of fact, law or discretion
  6. › Whether President misconstrued arbitrator's findings
  7. › Whether failure to address case advanced constituted constructive failure to exercise jurisdiction
  8. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), ss 352, 353
• 1. Statutory Interpretation
  2. › Purposive construction
  3. › Limits of judicial interpretation
  4. › Whether court may rewrite provision to achieve stated legislative purpose
  5. › Whether departure from literal meaning justified where literal meaning produces anomalous results
  6. › Interpretation Act 1987 (NSW), ss 33, 34

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