23 May 2014
Scoles v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2014] NZACC 128
- Court
- District Court
The VIMA was procedurally and substantively flawed because it failed to consider material contemporaneous evidence (the FRP and employer Carol Gunn reports) which demonstrated the appellant's real-world sustained capacity was a maximum of about 15 hours per week despite VAS; on that basis the finding of vocational independence at 30 hours or more was unsafe and the respondent's decision of 7 January 2011 was set aside.