[2022] NZACC 163 – Harvey v ACC (22 August 2022) [pdf, 305 KB]
...construed or interpreted and applied to the facts is a question of law … . [25] Even if the qualifying criteria are made out, the Court has an extensive discretion in the grant or refusal of leave so as to ensure proper use of scarce judicial resources. Leave is not to be granted as a matter of course. One factor in the grant of leave is the wider importance of any contended point of law … . [28] Section 20 of the Act sets out the circumstances in which a person will have cov...