10 Jun 2011
Nelson v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2011] NZACC 174
- Court
- District Court
The Court allowed the appeal because the occupational assessments were not sufficiently robust to support a finding of vocational independence: the Picture Framer role lacked evidence of transferable fine assembly skills and had medical incompatibilities, and the Dispatch Clerk role rested on an unjustified assumption that the appellant could acquire basic clerical/computer skills by on-the-job training; additionally the appellant did not receive effective vocational rehabilitation to address identified barriers, so the Reviewer's decision and the Corporation's vocational independence decisio…