Kennedy Cleaning Services Pty Limited v Petkoska

[2000] HCA 45
Judgment date
Case number
C16/1999
Before
Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow, Kirby, Hayne, Callinan JJ
Catchwords

Workers' compensation (ACT) – Injury - Personal injury arising in the course of employment - Employee had diseased heart valve and suffered a lesion caused by a blood clot which resulted in a stroke - Whether mutually exclusive statutory regimes for "injury" and "disease".

Words and phrases – "injury" - "disease" - "lesion".

Workers' Compensation Act 1951 (ACT) – ss 6(1), 7(1), 9, 9A, 9B.

Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW) – s 4.

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