REGINA v. NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONER, EX PARTE VISCUSI

Abstract

February 19, 1974 National Insurance — Industrial injuries benefit — Disablement benefit — “Finality” of medical decisions — Workman injuring knee — Successive assessments by medical boards and medical appeal tribunals relating to specific periods — Third medical board awarding 50 per cent benefit for life — Third medical appeal tribunal accepting surgeon's report suggesting malingering and discharging assessment — Whether medical decisions final when made for specific periods — Whether proceedings contrary to natural justice or made without due inquiry — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1965 (c.52) s.50(l) — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) (Determination of Claims and Questions) No. 2 Regulations, 1967 (S.I. 1967 No. 1571), regs. 12,19(2).

Citation

Denning, Buckley, L.J. and Roskill, L.J. (1974), "REGINA v. NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONER, EX PARTE VISCUSI", Managerial Law, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 197-211. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb022312