The expanded definition of employment in s 30(3)(e)(iv) of the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986 (SA) does not remove the requirement to establish a relevant causal link between the attendance falling within the expanded definition and the claimed injury. Stress arising from the course of litigation with a compensating authority is not compensable under the WRC Act. A trial judge's reasons may be adequate by necessary inference even where a specific determination is not expressly mentioned, provided the reasoning path can be plainly inferred from the reasons as a whole.
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