Miller v Secretary, Department of Communities and Justice

(2022) 318 IR 281; [2022] NSWCA 190

NSW Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Workers Compensation
2. › Estoppel
3. › Anshun estoppel
4. › Applicability to statutory compensation scheme
5. › Whether common law doctrine of Anshun estoppel may operate as defence to statutory entitlements
6. › Whether statutory scheme inconsistent with importation of non-statutory common law defence
7. › Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW), ss 4, 9, 9A, 25, 26
8. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), ss 261, 287, 350, 354
1. Statutory Interpretation
2. › Workers compensation legislation
3. › Interaction between statutory scheme and common law principles
4. › Whether statutory framework creates code excluding common law estoppel principles
5. › Whether provisions for multiple claims and against double recovery preclude Anshun estoppel
6. › Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW)
7. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW)
1. Estoppel
2. › Anshun estoppel
3. › Application in statutory tribunal proceedings
4. › Distinction between disputes concerning whole liability to pay and disputes concerning disparate injuries from same incident
5. › Whether adversarial nature and finality of tribunal decisions sufficient to engage Anshun principle

Quick Take

Anshun estoppel applies to proceedings under the Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW) and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW) where the dispute concerns the whole issue of liability to pay compensation, and claimants who fail to raise alternative bases for the same relief in initial proceedings risk being estopped from raising them later.