Sydney Trains v Batshon

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Workers compensation
  3. › Medical assessment
  4. › Appeal to Medical Appeal Panel
  5. › Request for re-examination by panel member
  6. › Whether panel considered request
  7. › Whether reasons for refusal adequate
  8. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), ss 327, 328
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Adequacy of reasons
  4. › Medical Appeal Panel
  5. › Whether reasons sufficient to explain actual path of reasoning
  6. › Differences between workers compensation and motor accident assessment regimes
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Mandatory relevant considerations
  4. › Whether worker's request for re-examination was a mandatory relevant consideration
  5. › Whether failure to refer to request in reasons gave rise to inference of non-consideration
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Denial of procedural fairness at first instance
  4. › Whether denial material where appeal is by way of rehearing

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