Read the full judgment text of CACV 000010/1989 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 15 February 1989 before Cons V-P, Hunter JA, Mortimer J.
Employees' compensation – social investigation reports – admissibility – court file – practice – appeal – costs – fatal accident on 12 May 1988 – widow brought proceedings – consent order sought for release of report – judge refused – whether social investigation reports should be placed on court file and used by judge without agreement – held: no – reports should not be on file or shown to judge until proper admission steps taken – appeal allowed – report removed from file and released to parties – case restored for trial before another judge – no order as to costs
Legal issues: Use and admissibility of social investigation reports in Employees' Compensation cases
Outcome: Appeal allowed; orders made for removal of report from court file, release to parties, and restoration of case for trial before another judge.