MK v Accident Compensation Corporation [2024] NZACC 45 (8 March 2024) [pdf, 460 KB]
...we shared the same income. If [the appellant] had not had the accident, he would have been training as a nurse management and an occupational health nurse at the time of the blackouts, so he would have been earning good money. I was studying environmental management and working as well, so I was earning good money, or what would have been on my own account, not a joint one. We are individuals, we pay separate taxes, Work and Income are denying my right as a person and as a woman...