New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Vocational assistance

Legal area

Court

8 Apr 2003

Sargeant v Accident Compensation Corporation

Citation

[2003] NZACC 57
Court

District Court

After completing the prescribed vocational interventions, including updated vocational assessment and a work trial, the respondent reasonably concluded that no further amendments to the IRP were required; the decision of 18 January 2002 was within the respondent’s statutory discretion and not unlawful or unreasonable.
27 Oct 2000

Reddell v Accident Compensation Corporation

Citation

[2000] NZACC 284
Court

District Court

Qualified medical and vocational assessments demonstrated the appellant had capacity for several alternative jobs with only restrictions on heavy lifting and prolonged bending/twisting; the appellant produced no clear, compelling, suitably qualified expert evidence to contradict those assessments, so the respondent's decision of 3 December 1999 that the appellant had capacity for work was correctly made and is confirmed.