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Summers v Director of Housing

Case [2012] VSC 395

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AGLC: Summers v Director of Housing & Ors [2012] VSC 395
Case: [2012] VSC 395
Decision Date: 7 SEPTEMBER 2012

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Summers v Director of Housing & Ors [2012] VSC 395

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Hart v Director of Housing and Hanover Welfare Services [2013] VCC 1402

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CD v Central Gippsland Health Service [2022] VSC 462
Citation 1 (Para 1)

…o Amendola v Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd (2008) 28 VAR 122 at 132[32] ( per Kaye J). [38]The panel referred to Summers v Director of Housing [2012] VSC 395 at [61] ( per Dixon J).…
Miletic v ANZ Banking Group Limited [2022] VSC 240
Citation 2 (Para 1)

…lled for in the present case. [47]Ms Miletic’s note filed on 14 May 2021 pursuant to the directions made on 28 April 2021, [5]–[7]. [48][2012] VSC 395, [61].…
Vision Precast Pty Ltd v Ferguson [2021] VSC 808
Citation 3 (Para 1)

…ment when undertaking the impairment assessment in respect of the claimed injuries. [9][2019] VSC 84 (‘ Neppessen ’). [10][2019] VSC 407. [11][2012] VSC 395.…
Latchford v Gibbons [2021] VSC 229
Citation 4

…h v Lloyd [2009] VSC 370, Chua v Newman-Morris [2009] VSC 582 [37], Chua v Lowthian [2011] VSC 468 [59] – [60]; Summers v Director of Housing & Ors [2012] VSC 395 [61].…
Ingle v Australia Pacific Airports (Melbourne) Pty Ltd [2021] VSC 50
Citation 5 (Para 1)

…the relevant subject matter (and the only relevant subject matter) of the impairment assessment. [27] Summers v Director of Housing [2012] VSC 395, [59]–[61] (John Dixon J) and cases there cited. [28]Emphasis added. [29]The undersurface of the patella had been extensively debrided, but not resurfaced: see medical…
Hart v Melbourne Underwater World Pty Ltd [2018] VSC 394
Citation 6 (Para 1)

…ons of Part VBA of the Act are contained in Chua v Newman-Morris [2009] VSC 582 (Emerton J), [4]-[8]; Summers v Director of Housing [2012] VSC 395 (John Dixon J), [6]-[13]; Saddington v Kotzmann [2013] VSC 196 (Kyrou J), [3]-[6], [11]-[16]; Adam v Wadesley [2018] VSC 304 (Ierodiaconou AsJ), [80]-[88].…
Kowal v O'Day [2014] VSC 347
Citation 7 (Para 1)

…poses of Part VBA, or any operational guidelines as to the use of the Guides or methods issued by the Minister. [7] Summers v Director of Housing [2012] VSC 395 [11] (Dixon J). [8] Wrongs Act 1958 (Vic) s 28LB.…
Mitchell v Malios [2013] VSC 480
Citation 8 (Para 1)

…on (and different considerations may apply) in a case involving purely physical impairments that fall to be assessed in respect of the one claim. [25][2012] VSC 395.…
Summers v Director of Housing [2013] VSC 233
Citation 9 (Para 50)

…[2]See [2012] VSC 395 at [50].…
Hart v Director of Housing and Hanover Welfare Services [2013] VCC 1402
Citation 10

…vailable definition of ‘significant injury’ under s28LF. 22.Reliance is first placed on the case of Summers v Director of Housing & Ors [2012] VSC 395 (‘ Summers’) , where Dixon J there observed that Part VBA provides the mechanism for referring as a ‘medical question’ that assessment of impairment to a panel. A…

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Georgopoulos v Silaforts Painting Pty Ltd [2012] VSCA 179
Citation 1

…[26][2012] VSCA 179.…
AG Staff Pty Ltd v Filipowicz; Arnold Ribbon Co Pty Ltd v Filipowicz [2012] VSCA 60
Citation 2

…[27]See A G Staff Pty Ltd v Filipowicz [2012] VSCA 60, [8], [30]; Sutton v Laminex Group Pty Ltd [2011] VSCA 52 [9].…
Sutton v Laminex Group Pty Ltd [2011] VSCA 52
Citation 3

…[27]See A G Staff Pty Ltd v Filipowicz [2012] VSCA 60, [8], [30]; Sutton v Laminex Group Pty Ltd [2011] VSCA 52 [9].…
Sherlock v Lloyd [2010] VSCA 122
Citation 4

…[28][2009] VSC 134 [13]. Although this decision was one of a number of decisions overruled by the Court of Appeal in Sherlock v Lloyd and ors [2010] 27 VR 434 on the issue of whether inadequate reasons was itself in error of law, Western Health v Gallachio was not overruled or doubted in relation to the prop…
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…[21][2001] HCA 30; (2001) 206 CLR 323, 351 [82].…
Mountain Pine Furniture Pty Ltd v Taylor [2007] VSCA 146
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…[55] Mountain Pine Furniture Pty Ltd v Taylor (2007) 16 VR 659, 669 [33].…
Hunter v Transport Accident Commission [2005] VSCA 1
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…[24](2005) 14 VR 622.…
Bray v F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd [2003] FCA 1505
Citation 8 (Para 1)

…ted that the statute clearly requires a claim to have actually been made, a conclusion drawn from the nature of a medical question. [30](2003) 130 FCR 317.…
Connelly v MMI Workers Compensation (Vic) Ltd [2003] VSCA 60
Citation 9

…[49] Lake v Transport Accident Commission [1998] 1 VR 616, 626; Connelly v MMI Workers Compensation (Vic) Ltd (2003) 6 VR 555, 557 [9].…
Barnett v Transport Accident Commission M26/2001 [2001] HCATrans 646
Citation 10

…[45] Barnett v Transport Accident Commission (1999) 15 VAR 414; [1999] VSC 484, [30]; aff’d and reasons adopted in Barnett v Transport Accident Commission (2001) 34 MVR 26; [2001] VSCA 12.…
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Yusuf [2001] HCA 30
Citation 11

…[21][2001] HCA 30; (2001) 206 CLR 323, 351 [82].…
Barnett v Transport Accident Commission [2001] VSCA 12
Citation 12

…Accident Commission (1999) 15 VAR 414; [1999] VSC 484, [30]; aff’d and reasons adopted in Barnett v Transport Accident Commission (2001) 34 MVR 26; [2001] VSCA 12.…
Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Wu Shan Liang [1996] HCA 6
Citation 13 (Para 1)

…978 .[3] The substantive provisions of Part VBA are entrenched as substantive law and are not procedural in nature.[4] [3] Masters v McCubbery [1996] 1 VR 635; Georgiou & Ors v Capitol Radiology Pty Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 158. [4]Section 28LD of the Act.…
Australian Broadcasting Tribunal v Bond [1990] HCA 33
Citation 14

…[23](1990) 170 CLR 321, 353.…
Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v Peko-Wallsend Ltd [1986] HCA 40
Citation 15

…[22](1986) 162 CLR 24, [39].…
Chua v Lowthian [2011] VSC 468
Citation 16

…[32][2011] VSC 468 (Osborn J).…
Georgiou & Ors v Capitol Radiology Pty Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 158
Citation 17 (Para 1)

…hed as substantive law and are not procedural in nature.[4] [3] Masters v McCubbery [1996] 1 VR 635; Georgiou & Ors v Capitol Radiology Pty Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 158. [4]Section 28LD of the Act.…
Chua v Newman-Morris [2009] VSC 582
Citation 18 (Para 1)

…Emerton J[36] stated, when explaining the context of the then new definition of ‘medical question’: [36][2009] VSC 582, [36]-[40].…
Melbourne Health v Lloyd [2009] VSC 370
Citation 19

…[34][2009] VSC 370 (Pagone J).…
HJ Heinz Company Australia Ltd v Kotzman [2009] VSC 311
Citation 20

…[44][2009] VSC 311, [24]-[28]. Footnotes reproduced from original.…
Western Health v Gallichio [2009] VSC 134
Citation 21

…[28][2009] VSC 134 [13]. Although this decision was one of a number of decisions overruled by the Court of Appeal in Sherlock v Lloyd and ors [2010] 27 VR 434 on the issue of whether inadequate reasons was itself in error of law, Western Health v Gallachio was not overruled or doubted in relation to the proper tr…
Transport Accident Commission v Elworthy [2007] VSC 48
Citation 22

…[47] Transport Accident Commission v Elworthy [2007] VSC 48, [20].…
Martinez v Dynamic Engineering Construction Co Pty Ltd [2005] VSC 204
Citation 23

…[52] Martinez v Dynamic Engineering Construction Co Pty Ltd [2005] VSC 204, [10].…
Gillat v Transport Accident Commission [2003] VSC 15
Citation 24

…[46] Gillat v Transport Accident Commission (2003) 38 MVR 463; [2003] VSC 15, [27].…
State Trustees v Transport Accident Commission [2002] VSC 428
Citation 25

…[48] State Trustees Ltd v Transport Accident Commission (2002) 6 VR 359, 365 [25].…

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