30 Sept 2016
Morris v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2016] NZACC 277
- Court
- District Court
The reviewer's dismissal of the 19 February 2015 and 1 April 2015 applications was correct because the communications did not identify any ACC decision capable of review; statutory duties to acknowledge and allocate reviewers (ss136-137) did not render the dismissal invalid where allocation occurred and timing was not determinative; and the reviewer was not precluded from determining the review because his prior involvement related to a different claim and ss138-139 require disclosure/avoidance only for previous involvement 'in the claim', so no reasonable apprehension of bias arose under Sax…