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March 13, 1968 Statutory duty — Railway — Provision of a look‐out — Sub‐gang instructed by sub‐inspector to repair broken bolts — Ganger in charge of sub‐gang — No look‐out contemplated or appointed — No train expected during work — Ganger killed by diverted train — Knowledge of railwayman that trains likely to be diverted — Whether “danger…likely to arise” — Responsibility for look‐out — Whether duty of sub‐inspector or ganger — Whether contributory negligence — Prevention of Accidents Rules, 1902, (S.R.& 0.1902, No. 616),r.9.

May 16, 1968 Building — Safety regulations — Roof of fragile materials — Safe means of access — Employee working from roof to knowledge of employers — Convenient but not necessary to do so — Not proper place from which to work — Employers' failure to inspect roof to see that safe — Whether negligent — Fall of employee through roof — Whether employers in breach of statutory duty — Whether roof place where employee “has…to work” — “Have to pass over” — “Ladders” — Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1948 (S.I. 1948 No. 1145), reg. 31(3) — Construction (General Provisions) Regulations, 1961 (S.I. 1961 No. 1580), reg. 7(1).

April 21, 1970 Master and servant — Negligence — Vicarious liability — Course of employment — Employers instructing plaintiff to obey fellow‐employees' instructions — Practical joke by fellow‐employees — Plaintiff instructed to put hand up spout of grinding machine to clear alleged blockage — Machine accidentally set in motion — Plaintiff's hand injured — Whether employers vicariously liable — Onus of proof.

December 4, 1969 Revenue — Selective employment tax — Qualifying activities — “Agricultural contracting” — Company carrying out grass‐cutting, hedging, ditching, fertilising, landscaping, etc., on Ministry aerodromes and service stations under contract — Whether “agricultural contracting” — Selective Employment Payments Act, 1966 (c. 32), s. 2 (1) (2) (3) — Standard Industrial Classification (1963), 001.2.

June 27, 1966 Damages — Personal injuries — Future uncertainty — Brain damage — Minor epilepsy controlled by drugs — 50/ 50 chance of major epilepsy developing — Whether £8,000 proper sum — No prognosis until five years after accident — Suitable case for postponement of hearing — R.S.C., Ord.36, r.34; Ord.35b, r.2.

March 19, 1970 Building — Safety Regulations — Scaffold — Left “partly … dismantled” — Workman properly provided with trestles — User of scaffold for balancing — Whether scaffold “capable of being used” — Construction (Working Places) Regulations, 1966 (S.I. 1966, No. 94), regs. 4, 7, 12.

November 26, 1969 Building — Safety regulations — Applicability — Regulation providing that support to be given “Where work cannot safely be done… from part of a building” — Further regulation providing for safety belts in special circumstances — Steel erector working astride girder — Girder part of permanent structure — Fall in course of bolting beam to stanchion — Whether safe place of work — Whether breach by employer of regulations — Construction (General Provisions) Regulations, 1961 (S. 1. 1961, No. 1580), regs. 7(2) and 54.

May 9, 1967 Damages — Personal injuries — Quantum — Pension — Compulsory contribution — Police pension fund — Right to disability pension on discharge from police — Whether pension to be taken into account in claim for damages.

May 28, 1968 Factory — Floor — Maintenance — Slippery substance — Obligation to keep floor free from “so far as is reasonably practicable” — Extent of statutory duty — Whether necessary for plaintiff to show that reasonable occupier would have foreseen presence of substance on floor — Whether occupier's duty discharged by provision of proper system of cleaning of floor — Whether discharged by entrusting work resulting in substance on floor to responsible workman — Onus of proof — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz.II, c.34), s.28(1).