Cottom v Scone Racing Club Ltd [2023] NSWSC 779

Cottom v Scone Racing Club Ltd [2023] NSWSC 779

The appeal panel committed jurisdictional error and error of law by failing to consider and resolve the plaintiff's application to admit further documents before determining the appeal, as required under s 328(3) of the Act. Leave to bring proceedings out of time was granted in the interests of justice. The panel's...

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Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
06 July 2023
Procedural Posture
Judicial Review / Final Judgment
Outcome
Orders granted for leave to file out of time, declaration of error, quashing of appeal panel's decision, and remittal to a fresh panel.
Legal Topics
['judicial Review of Medical Assessment Certificate' 'jurisdictional Error' 'procedural Fairness' 'application Out of Time']
['workers Compensation' 'civil Procedure'] ['judicial Review of Medical Assessment Certificate' 'jurisdictional Error' 'procedural Fairness' 'application Out of Time']

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Procedural Posture

Judicial Review / Final Judgment

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ["Whether the appeal panel failed to consider the plaintiff's application to admit further evidence before determining the appeal" 'Whether the failure to consider that application amounted to jurisdictional error or error of law on the face of the record' 'Whether leave should be granted to bring judicial review proceedings out of time']

Ratio Decidendi

The appeal panel committed jurisdictional error and error of law by failing to consider and resolve the plaintiff's application to admit further documents before determining the appeal, as required under s 328(3) of the Act. Leave to bring proceedings out of time was granted in the interests of justice. The panel's decision was quashed, and the matter remitted for reconsideration by a differently constituted panel.

Court Disposition

Orders granted for leave to file out of time, declaration of error, quashing of appeal panel's decision, and remittal to a fresh panel.

Orders

  • ['Mr Cottom is given leave, nunc pro tunc, to file his summons out of time.' "It is declared that the appeal panel's 31 March 2022 decision is affected by error of law on the face of the record and by jurisdictional error." "The appeal panel's 31 March 2022 decision is quashed." "Mr Cottom's application to rely on...