A medical panel considering 'no current work capacity' under s 3 of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic) satisfies its obligation to consider the entirety of the worker's personal circumstances where it expressly identifies and considers the worker's psychological limitations on finding employment, even without separately analysing the worker's 'psychological capacity to seek to enter an employment relationship' as a distinct consideration. The standard of reasons required of a medical panel is not to be equated with the standard required of a judge.
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