REGINA v. NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONER, EX PARTE VISCUSI

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).