Iqbal v Hotel Operation Solutions Pty Ltd

• 1. Workers Compensation
  2. › Definition of 'injury'
  3. › Disease
  4. › Whether 'disease' in s 4(b) requires distinction between 'biological' degenerative changes and 'pathological' trauma-based changes
  5. › Whether term 'disease' to be given broadest meaning
  6. › Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW), s 4(b)
• 1. Workers Compensation
  2. › Burden of proof
  3. › Employment-related injury
  4. › Whether applicant bearing burden of proof can invert onus by pleading no evidence of pre-existing injury
  5. › Whether applicant can rely on own evidence to assert no evidence of pre-existing condition
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Workers compensation appeals
  3. › Appeal from Presidential member to Court of Appeal
  4. › Error-based jurisdiction
  5. › Decision in point of law
  6. › Whether challenge to factual findings raises point of law
  7. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), ss 352, 353
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Workers compensation appeals
  3. › Jurisdiction of Court of Appeal
  4. › Medical assessment certificate
  5. › Whether right of appeal to Court of Appeal from medical assessment certificate
  6. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), s 327

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