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February 19, 1969 Negligence — Apportionment of blame — “Last opportunity” — Lorry parked at night on wrong side of road — Plaintiff's car in head on collision with lorry — Whether parties to blame — Whether doctrine of last opportunity applicable — Fault and causation.

November 26, 1970 Factory — Statutory duty — Admitted breach by employer — Machinery not adequately fenced — Injury to machine operator — Accident caused by accidental error of operator in course of duty — Liability of employer — Whether blame to be attached to workman having regard to employer's breach of duty.

October 5, 1972 Factory — Statutory duty — Breach by employer — Meat slicing machinery — Finger injuries — Guard provided by employer habitually not used — Guard not used by manager in slicing operation continued by employee — Contributory negligence by employee — Proper apportionment of liability where continuous breach of statutory duty by employer — Proper award for finger injuries — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II, c. 34) s. 14(1).

December 19, 1969 Redundancy — Dismissal — Employer's work in one place terminating — Invitation to employees to move to new factory — Employees declining to work elsewhere — Terms of offer — Whether repudiation of contracts by employer — Whether employees entitled to terminate contracts — Whether employees “dismissed” — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), ss. 1, 3(1)(a),(c).

November 10, 1970 Docks — Dock work — Waterside manufacturers carrying on loading and unloading operations from and into ships — Port transport work — Labour scheme equating “port transport work” with “dock work” — “Port transport work” not to include work of “waterside manufacturers” except where work that of “a public wharfinger and/or master lighterman and/or master stevedore” — Whether work carried on within exception — Whether “dock work” — Docks and Harbours Act, 1966 (c.28), s.58(1) — Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) (Amendment) Order, 1967 (S.I.1967, No. 1252), Sch. 2.

February 5, 1970 Negligence — Standard of care — Turner injured while manually polishing work in lathe — Danger known to employers — Evidence of common practice — Whether employers liable in negligence.

March 12, 1970 Master and Servant — Hire of plant — Mechanical excavator and driver — Substitution of third party's excavator and driver — Instructions to driver by hirer — Negligence of driver — Whether driver servant of hirer — “Course of employment” — Whether third party liable for driver's negligence.

February 10, 1969 Master and Servant — Negligence — Safe system of work — Roadworks — Workman in gang resurfacing carriageway injured by lorry driving too fast — Warning signs in position — Whether employers negligent in not erecting barriers against passing traffic — No evidence of common practice of erecting barriers — Effect of suggested barriers to reduce traffic to one lane — Need to balance public interest against risk to workers on carriageway — Whether lorry wholly to blame.

July 23, 1970 Revenue — Selective employment tax — Qualifying activities — Press photographic agency — Appropriate classification — Selective Employment Payments Act, 1966 (c.32) ss.1(1), (2), 10(5) — Standard Industrial Classification (1963) Minimum list headings 486, 899.2.