11 Oct 2012
Utumapu v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2012] NZACC 343
- Court
- District Court
There was a fundamental and unresolved conflict between the SB Consultants' literacy screening (which identified extremely low English literacy and limited numeracy restricting the appellant to narrow subcategories and repetitive tasks) and the VIOA conclusion that the appellant was vocationally independent in generic public-facing roles; the VIOA failed to adequately address and explain this conflict, so the Corporation's vocational independence decision could not stand.