APPEAL FROM DECISION OF MEDICAL APPEAL TRIBUNAL ON A QUESTION OF LAW 27.4.66

The Minister, having directed reference of the case to the Medical Appeal Tribunal, asked them, if satisfied the disablement was due in any degree to a psychiatric condition, to say whether the accident was a real and effective cause of this condition. The tribunal gave as their reasons for their decision “the present flexion of the ring and middle finger is hysterical and the accident is not the real and effective cause thereof.”