Ballas v Department of Education (State of NSW)

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Jurisdictional error
  4. › Delegate of Registrar of Workers Compensation Commission
  5. › Gatekeeper function under s 327(4)
  6. › Whether Delegate misconstrued role by determining merits of appeal rather than assessing arguability
  7. › Whether conflation of concepts in statutory guidelines constituted jurisdictional error
  8. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), ss 327(3), 327(4)
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Privative clauses
  4. › Entrenched supervisory jurisdiction
  5. › Whether Certificate of Determination superseded Delegate's decision and placed it beyond supervisory jurisdiction
  6. › Whether subsequent administrative steps infected by antecedent jurisdictional error
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 69
  8. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), ss 294, 326, 350
• 1. Workers Compensation
  2. › Assessment of permanent impairment
  3. › Psychiatric Impairment Rating Scale
  4. › Workers Compensation Guidelines
  5. › Whether characterisation of conduct into PIRS scales is a matter of discretion or a characterisation exercise
  6. › Whether solitary activities relevant to assessment of 'social and recreational activities'
  7. › Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW), ss 65A(3), 151H
  8. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), ss 322, 325, 326, 327, 328

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