Court of Appeal

Date:19981001                                                       Docket:  C.A. 149064    

                                  NOVA SCOTIA COURT OF APPEAL

          Cite as:  Nova Scotia (Workers= Compensation Board) v. Bambrick,

1998 NSCA 179

                                          Freeman, Flinn, Cromwell, JJ.A.

BETWEEN:

WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD

OF NOVA SCOTIA                                                       )                                                                              )      David P. S. Farrar

)        for the Appellant

Appellant        )

)

- and -                                                 )

)        Sarah Bradfield

)        for  the Respondent, WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS                          )         Tribunal

TRIBUNAL OF NOVA SCOTIA                                  )       

)

Respondent        )          

- an -                                                             )

)

)

CLAUDE BAMBRICK                                                  )                                                                              )                  K. H. (Kenny) LeBlanc

)        for the Respondent

)       Workers' Adviser Program

Respondent        )                                                                              )

)       

)        Judgment Delivered:

)        October 1, 1998

THE COURT:     Appeal allowed without costs and the matter is remitted back to the Tribunal.

PER CORAM:

On July 30, 1998, the appellant was granted leave to appeal on the ground that the Workers' Compensation Appeals Tribunal of Nova Scotia, erred on a question of jurisdiction by finding that it did not have jurisdiction to quantify or determine the worker=s permanent medical impairment based on the PMI Guidelines for Permanent Medical disability resulting from an injury on or after March 23, 1990.

 In the meantime, this Court has delivered its decision in Workers= Compensation Appeal Board v. Richard et al., C.A. No. 144006, decided August 11, 1998. This decision may have a bearing on the Tribunal=s determination of the issues in the present appeal.

In similar circumstances, the appeal in Workers' Compensation Board of Nova Scotia v. Shelley Williams and the Workers' Compensation Appeals Tribunal of Nova Scotia, C.A. 143582, May 22, 1998, was remitted to the Tribunal to consider the impact, if any, of Muise, C.A.141481, May 12, 1998, on the respondent=s appeal decided by the Tribunal, November 12, 1997. 

In anticipation of a similar disposition, counsel for the parties have consented to an order remitting this matter back to the Tribunal in lieu of proceeding with the hearing scheduled for November 19, 1998.  It will, therefore, be ordered that the appeal herein is allowed without costs to any party and the matter is remitted to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Tribunal of Nova Scotia for rehearing.

Freeman, J.A.

Flinn, J.A.

Cromwell, J.A.

                                                                   C.A. No. 149064

                      NOVA SCOTIA COURT OF APPEAL

BETWEEN:

WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD

OF NOVA SCOTIA

)

Appellant          )

- and -                                                         )       REASONS FOR

)       JUDGMENT BY:

WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS     )       FREEMAN, J.A.

TRIBUNAL                                                   )

)      

)        

Respondent      )

)

CLAUDE BAMBRICK                                   )                                                     )

)

)

)

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