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February 28, 1968 Factory — Lighting — “Sufficient and suitable” — Effective lighting provided — Lighting not switched on — Whether breach of statutory duty — Roadway 30 feet wide — Whether “passage” or “gangway” — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz.II, c.34), ss.5(1), 28(1).

June 16, 1967 Master and Servant — Maintenance of suit — Trade union's paid officials — Defamation action — Union's legal assistance to officials for libel action — Whether maintenance — No express power to pay officials' costs in union rules — Whether fairly ancillary to work of servants and business of union.

May 11, 1966 Occupiers' liability — Common duty of care — Electrical engineer's fall from hardboard roofing — Warning notice in wrong place — Whether “special risk ordinarily incident” to calling — Occupiers' Liability Act, 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. II., c.31), s. 2(2), (3) (b).

March 13, 1968 Damages — Personal injuries — Quantum — Sense of smell, loss of — Appropriate sum.

March 12, 1968 Factory — “Lifting machine” — Push button control — Workman operating crane thereby, ruptured thumb — Stiff buttons assumed to be faulty control — Stiffness caused by fault in electrical circuit — Whether part of lifting machine — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz.II,c.34), s.27(1).

March 14, 1968 Building — Safety regulations — Application — Painters engaged in cleaning and dusting prior to painting — Fall from unlashed ladder — Breach of regulation 29(4), if regulations applicable — Whether dusting included in operation of “redecoration” — Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1948 (S.I. 1948, No.1145), reg.2(1).

June 18, 1969 Damages — Evidence — Fresh Evidence — Appeal on quantum — Assessment — Change of circumstances after judgment — Fresh evidence admitted — Amount increased.

June 29, 1966 Master and servant — Restraint of trade — Estate agent's clerk and negotiator employed — Business in country town — Recurring customers — Covenant not to carry on business as estate agent within radius of five miles of employer's business for three years of termination of employment — Whether enforceable.

July 21, 1966. Negligence — Contributory negligence — Plaintiff workman crushed by guide car in steelworks — Movement of car without warning after plaintiff discharged from car to repair another vehicle —Car driver's admitted negligence — Plaintiff's assumption that guide car would not be moved — Whether assumption justified — Whether failure to keep a proper look out — Whether contributory negligence. Damages — Quantum — Semi‐paraplegic — Grave injuries to lower part of body — Plaintiff fit for light work and mobile — Proper amount of damages.