New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists v Accident Compensation Corporation - [1988] 1 NZLR 346

Administrative law — Judicial review — Accident Compensation Act — In August 1985 the Accident Compensation Corporation decided, partly as a cost containment measure, to limit the amount it would pay for physiotherapy treatment to accident victims — Whether Corporation was under a duty to pay full cost of treatment if it considered amount to be reasonable by New Zealand standards — Whether Corporation in breach of its statutory duty — Whether in taking cost containment into account the Corporation had acted on improper considerations and taken irrelevant considerations into account — Whether decision should be reviewed — Observations on purpose of Act — Accident Compensation Act 1982, s 75.