Ms Joan Gordon:

I am not aware of specific appeals going directly to the courts. The office was set up in 1990 and appeals officers were given statutory functions, although I cannot remember the Act. Each person can still appeal an appeals officer's decision or the revised decision of the chief appeals officer to the High Court on a question of law. Some of our cases have ended up in the High Court or the Supreme Court, for example, Denny, Barry and Neenan. There is a plethora of case law. However, I am not aware of ones where the scope unit decision went directly to the courts.