HM v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2024] NZACC 004 [pdf, 199 KB]
...court, to lead evidence on all points that were investigated, whether strictly obliged to or not. [16] In Allenby v H,2 the Supreme Court stated: [66] Where, however, the medical misadventure involves misdiagnosis of a disease, perhaps without any form of treatment being given, it is not a natural use of language to speak of the progression of the disease (say the enlargement of a cancerous tumour and the spreading of the cancer to another part of the body) as a physical injury. Y...