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December 10, 1968 Damages — Personal injuries — Assessment — Subsequent independent injury — Injuries to left leg — Subsequent amputation of leg before trial owing to other causes — Whether to be taken into account — Whether damages to be reduced — Apportionment — Principles on which Court of Appeal will interfere.

November 6, 1969 Factory — Statutory duty — Breach — Disabled workman sustaining injury while lifting weight — Told previously by employers to ask for help in lifting weights if necessary — Help readily available — Whether “employed to lift, carry or move … load so heavy as to be likely to cause injury to him” — Whether employers entitled to leave decision to ask for help to plaintiff — Safe system of work — Failure of employers to provide — Whether established — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II, c. 34), s. 72(1).

The original legislation which introduced the redundancy payments scheme was the Redundancy Payments Act 1965. This was the first of the substantive statutory individual employment rights given to an employee; other individual employment rights, as for example, the right not to be unfairly dismissed, followed some years later. The Redundancy Payments Act 1965 has been repealed and the provisions on redundancy are now to be found in the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978.

December 13, 1967 Master and Servant — Redundancy — “Transfer of trade or business” — Assignment of factory premises, fixtures, fittings, plant and machinery — Purchasers entitled to benefit of trade agreements, licences and use of part of vendors' name — No assignment of goodwill or stock in trade — Vendors to carry on business and management of employees until completion of contract — Whether “trade or business transferred” — Employees continuing to work for purchasers — Whether continuously employed — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (c.49), Sch.1, para. 10(2) — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), s.1(1), Sch.1,para.1(1).

December 21, 1966 Master and servant — Dismissal — Redundancy — Dismissal for personal deficiencies — New methods introduced after take‐over of garage business — Workshop manager unable to adapt to new methods and standards required — New workshop manager engaged after dismissal — New manager's duties not identical — Whether dismissal by reason of “redundancy” — Relevance of allocation of duties between individuals — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (13 & 14 Eliz.II, c.62), ss. 1,9(2).

November 25, 1966 Master and servant — Dismissal — Redundancy — Employee warned that department closing down and services not required after closure — Date for closure not fixed — Offer to find employee alternative employment elsewhere — Employee finding other employment before closure — Notice given to employers to determine employment — Whether employee entitled to redundancy payment — Whether “dismissed” — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965, (c.62), ss. 1,3.

May 11, 1967 Master and Servant — Dismissal — Redundancy — Residence on premises for operation of emergency service — Motor fitter working in garage — Vacant possession of employee's residence required by employer — Offer to re‐employ as non‐resident fitter — Whether business for which employee employed ceased — Whether requirements for work of a particular kind ceased — Whether dismissal by reason of redundancy — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62),s.1.

April 21, 1967 Master and servant — Redundancy — Dismissal — Renewal of contract — Employees served with notice — Subsequent request by employer to stay on to finish a job — Refusal by employee having new employment — Offer accepted by other employees for short time — Whether employer “offered to renew” contract — Whether unreasonable refusal — Whether “contract of employment . . . renewed” — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c. 62), ss.2(3), 3(2), 56(1).