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Article
Publication date: 1 December 1970

L.J. Davies, L.J. Sachs and L.J. Karminski

June 26, 1970 Master and Servant — Breach of statutory duty — Unfenced hatch on ship — Fall by workman — Workman negligent in entering unlighted compartment — Proper apportionment…

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June 26, 1970 Master and Servant — Breach of statutory duty — Unfenced hatch on ship — Fall by workman — Workman negligent in entering unlighted compartment — Proper apportionment of liability where continuous breach of statutory duty by employer — Workman seriously injured — Differing “agreed” medical reports — Duty of judge to call for oral evidence.

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Managerial Law, vol. 9 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1970

L.J. Davies, L.J. Widgery and L.J. Karminski

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…

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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).

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Managerial Law, vol. 7 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 June 1970

Fenton Atkinson, L.J. Karminski and Gordon Willmer

October 24, 1969 Factory — Statutory duty — Dangerous machinery — Dangerous combination of machinery and material — Danger arising from “nip” between moving work‐piece and…

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October 24, 1969 Factory — Statutory duty — Dangerous machinery — Dangerous combination of machinery and material — Danger arising from “nip” between moving work‐piece and stationary bar — Automatic cooling device — Danger arising from coolant applied by hand — Practice known to employers — Whether foreseeable — Whether duty to fence — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II, c. 34), s. 14(1).

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Managerial Law, vol. 8 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 July 1970

L.J. Winn, L.J. Karminski and Gordon Willmer

March 19, 1970 Building — Safety Regulations — Scaffold — Left “partly … dismantled” — Workman properly provided with trestles — User of scaffold for balancing — Whether scaffold…

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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.

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Managerial Law, vol. 8 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 May 1972

L.J. Davies, L.J. Karminski and L.J. Roskill

October 19, 1971 Insurance — National Insurance contributions — Employer's liability — Employer a “body corporate” — Failure by limited company to pay contributions in respect of…

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October 19, 1971 Insurance — National Insurance contributions — Employer's liability — Employer a “body corporate” — Failure by limited company to pay contributions in respect of employees — Conviction and order for payment of arrears — Company in voluntary liquidation — Failure to satisfy order — Claim against former managing director — Not a director at date of magistrates' order — Whether liable — National Insurance Act, 1965 (c.5l) ss.8(2), 95(3) (8).

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Managerial Law, vol. 12 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 April 1973

L.J. Davies, L.J. Karminski and L.J. Lawton

November 23, 1972 Master and Servant — Offices, shops, etc. premises — Telephone exchange — Lift motor room — Notice on door stating that only authorised attendant permitted to…

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November 23, 1972 Master and Servant — Offices, shops, etc. premises — Telephone exchange — Lift motor room — Notice on door stating that only authorised attendant permitted to enter — Room occasionally used by other employees as route to roof — Employee fatally injured while in room — Floor not of sound construction — Breach of statutory duty — Widow's claim for damages — Whether employee liable — Contributory negligence — Extent of — Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963 (c.41), ss.l (2), 16(1), (4).

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Managerial Law, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 November 1972

L.J. Davies, L.J. Karminski and L.J. Stephenson

April 18, 1972 Negligence — Contributory negligence — Damages — Apportionment — Plaintiffs minor contributory negligence — Whether to be disregarded — Law Reform (Contributory…

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April 18, 1972 Negligence — Contributory negligence — Damages — Apportionment — Plaintiffs minor contributory negligence — Whether to be disregarded — Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act, 1945 (8, 9 & 10 Geo. VI, c. 28) s. 1(1).

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Managerial Law, vol. 13 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 September 1969

L.J. Salmon, L.J. Winn and L.J. Karminski

February 28, 1969 Damages — Special damage — Loss of earnings between accident and trial — “Compensationitis” — Plaintiff's minor physical injuries — Anxiety neurosis — Functional…

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February 28, 1969 Damages — Special damage — Loss of earnings between accident and trial — “Compensationitis” — Plaintiff's minor physical injuries — Anxiety neurosis — Functional pain for which no physical cause — Pain expected to vanish on determination of plaintiff's claim — Whether duty to prosecute action with due diligence — Plaintiff's dilatoriness in proceedings — Effect on special damage.

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Managerial Law, vol. 6 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1970

L.J. Davies, L.J. Winn and L.J. Karminski

December 4, 1969 Revenue — Selective employment tax — Qualifying activities — “Agricultural contracting” — Company carrying out grass‐cutting, hedging, ditching, fertilising…

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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.

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Managerial Law, vol. 7 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

Article
Publication date: 1 May 1969

L.J. Harman, L.J. Russell and L.J. Karminski

February 20, 1969 Master and servant — Wrongful dismissal — Gardener — Written contract — Express term for three months' notice of termination of contract — Deterioration in work…

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February 20, 1969 Master and servant — Wrongful dismissal — Gardener — Written contract — Express term for three months' notice of termination of contract — Deterioration in work — Complaints of “dumb insolence” — Final act of insolence — Whether indicating repudiation of responsibilities under contract — Whether summary dismissal justified.

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Managerial Law, vol. 6 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0558

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