Sawaneh v Flintwood Disability Services Ltd

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Jurisdictional error
  4. › Constructive failure to exercise jurisdiction
  5. › Whether decision-maker meaningfully engaged with submissions
  6. › Whether reasons adequate to disclose actual path of reasoning
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Procedural fairness
  4. › Inadequate reasons
  5. › Whether inadequate reasons can constitute denial of procedural fairness as distinct from error of law on face of record
  6. › Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), s 323
• 1. Workers Compensation
  2. › Assessment of whole person impairment
  3. › Deduction for previous injury or pre-existing condition
  4. › Section 323 of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW)
  5. › Whether statutory assumption of 10% deduction displaced by available evidence
  6. › Powers of medical appeal panel to revoke certificate and issue new assessment
  7. › Whether appeal panel exceeded jurisdiction by considering unreferred injuries

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