COURSE CATEGORY
Substantive law
An essential guide to workers compensation and impairment (NSW)
Western Australia Customers
Please note this course has not been updated in the last twelve months and does not satisfy the requirements for CPD in WA.
Published on 19 October 2021.
This module takes a closer look at workers compensation and impairment and Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW):
- The significance of the WPI thresholds
- Medical expenses under section 59A and section 60
- WPI under Sections 65, 65A and 66
- Domestic assistance under section 60AA
- Work injury damages & psychiatric cases
- Sections 36,37,38 and 39
- Commutations under section 87EA
- Submissions to Judge McDougall in relation to the review of iCare and the State Insurance and Care Governance Act 2015
- Impact of Personal Injury Commission Rules 2021, Procedural Directions
Completion of this course will earn you 1 CPD unit.
This course is produced in NSW and features a NSW-based practitioner. This course is available to all NSW based practitioners.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Solicitors in general practice, NSW legal practitioners
CPD POINTS
1
TYPE
Text-based interactive module
Con Ktenas
Lawyer, Accredited Specialist, Stacks Goudkamp
Con joined Stacks Goudkamp in September 2018. He has over 30 years of experience in litigation in every jurisdiction.
He is an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury, a member of a number of Law Society Committees such as the Injury Compensation Committee, the Accredited Specialist Advisory Committee and the President of the Law Society’s Commercial Arbitration panel.
Con is a Local Court Arbitrator and a former District Court Arbitrator. He is a past President of the City of Sydney Law Society and a current member of the Supreme Court Users Group chaired by the Chief Judge at Common Law. Con is also a Notary Public.
He has volunteered in various community legal centres and worked as a part time legal academic for many years.
At Stacks Goudkamp he practises in the areas of personal injury litigation including Workers Compensation, Work Injury damages, Total Permanent Disability (TPD), Occupiers Liability, Professional Negligence, Medical/Dental negligence, asbestos litigation and toxic torts litigation such as the herbicide “Roundup”.
He is passionate in representing the rights of injured workers and is very approachable and empathetic to all his clients.
In his spare time in the past Con loved to travel overseas with his family to many parts of the globe. He enjoys reading and current affairs.
