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1. [2021] NZACC 51 - Wylie v ACC (17 March 2021) [pdf, 206 KB]

   ...cited above includes the following expression of concern: Patients have some responsibility for following up their own test results, and for doctors to assume all of this responsibility is paternalistic and infantilising. The previous Health and Disability Commissioner, Dr Ron Patterson, became concerned about GPs failing to track and notify test results. He stated that “a doctor is responsible for having an efficient system for identifying and following up overdue test results...

2. McKenzie v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2024] NZACC 008 [pdf, 295 KB]

   ...symptomatic that which previously was asymptomatic does not alter that basic principle. The accident did not cause the degenerative changes, it just caused the effect of those changes to become apparent and of course in many cases for them to become the disabling feature. [68] Panckhurst J concluded that there was a single test under the Act, namely:8 … whether the disease is the whole or the substantial cause of the injury. If so, cover is unavailable regardless that the accident...

3. Cotter v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2024] NZACC 013 [pdf, 249 KB]

   ...between 2001 and 2008, a job which involved loading freezers on a boat for 8 hours. When she was not working the client described her activities as gym, swimming and cycling for 7 hours per week. This level of activity is not consistent with the disability of traumatic meniscal tears. I note in 2016 the client sent a form to ACC linking her left knee symptoms to an accident on a boat in 2007. The client does not have an ACC claim for an injury in 2007. Further, the Surgeon state...

4. IPT Practice Note 4/2023 Deportation Non-Resident [pdf, 384 KB]

   ...so, it will inform the appellant and provide copies of the chief executive’s submissions for comment — section 230(1). 10. NEEDS OF APPELLANTS [10.1] The Tribunal endeavours to accommodate the needs of appellants, such as those with a disability, and expects to receive advance notice of any such needs. [10.2] The appellant, counsel or representative should alert the Tribunal to any gender-related factors so that appropriate arrangements can be made where possible. This can...

5. Court-Remote-Participation-Amendment-Bill_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   ...External Resources 61 No external resources were used to develop this paper or for the supporting policy analysis. 3 Report: Digital inclusion user insights — Māori | NZ Digital government, May 2021. 4 Māori, Pacific Peoples, seniors, people with disabilities, people living in rural communities, and families with children living in low socio-economic communities are at risk of not being digitally included. 8 I N C O N F I D E N C E auye8nfjli 2023-12-19 11:39:04 I N C O N F I...

6. Foketi v Accident Compensation Corporation (Weekly Compensation) [2023] NZACC 86 [pdf, 293 KB]

   ...assessment. This was completed on 20 May 2022 by Ms Unshaw. She noted in her report, dated 22 May 2022, that Mr Foketi was then “wearing a moonboot, full WB using bilateral elbow crutches for mobility”. In addition to the right foot disability, Ms Unshaw noted several other problems, including lost sensation and movement in both hands, a fall due to his legs having given way, and numbness in his lower limbs. Ms Unshaw assessed that Mr Foketi then had no social rehabilita...

7. Sale-and-Supply-of-Alcohol-Rugby-World-Cup-2023-Extended-Trading-Hours-Amendment-Act_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 588 KB]

   ...limited consultation are adequately mitigated. Population Implications 40. Hazardous drinking and alcohol-related harm disproportionately affects men, Māori, Pacific people, young people, people living in poorer neighbourhoods, people with disabilities, people with mental health and addiction issues, people who are pregnant or breastfeeding, and people who identify as gay or lesbian. 41. There is no specific evidence attributing alcohol-related harm to the previous amendments...

8. [2023] NZEmpC 158 Turner v Te Whatu Ora [pdf, 293 KB]

   ...team members doing this. (b) Registered nurses are to reflect on and address their own practice and values that impact on nursing care in relation to the health consumer’s age, ethnicity, culture, beliefs, gender, sexual orientation and/or disability. (c) Registered nurses must maintain a high standard of professional and personal behaviour, including when they use social media and electronic forms of communication. [26] Mr McCann also referred to the DHB’s social media...

9. LCRO 131/2022 GN, YL and EK v FQ (30 June 2023) [pdf, 212 KB]

   ...the central issue of the current complaint as engaging a dispute between siblings, when the focus of the complaint was the manner in which Mr FQ had engaged with the applicants; and (n) Mr FQ had provided one of the complainants with a Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC) decision in circumstances which had potential to compromise the complainant; and (o) whilst Mr FQ could not be held accountable for a party changing their mind subsequent to an agreement being reached, he was nev...

10. Stryder v Accident Compensation Corporation (Weekly Compensation) [2024] NZACC 68 [pdf, 285 KB]

    ...satisfied that the appellant suffered radiculopathy and discogenic pain that would have continued from the date of the injury. The injury was different from mechanical back pain and chronic pain syndrome which is not likely to cause the same continuous disability as radiculopathy. MacKay [2011] NZACC 28 was a case where there was a gap in the medical evidence. But in that case, heard before me and unlike the present case, found specifically that all the evidence pointed one way. It wa...