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October 21, 1969 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Calculation of payment — Continuous employment — “Temporary cessation of work” — Employers' work shortage — Dismissal — Re‐employment — Whether period of qualifying service broken — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (c.49), Sch. 1, para. 5(1)(b) — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), s.1 (1), Sch. 1, para. 1(1).

March 11, 1969 Negligence — Res ipsa loquitur — Onus — Steelworker — Oxygen hose catching fire — Loud explosion — Ensuing panic — Injury to workman.

July 23, 1967 Factory — Place of work — Duty to keep safe — “So far as is reasonably practicable” — Onus of proof — Factories Act, 1961 (9&10 Eliz. II,c.34), s. 29(1).

July 26, 1967 Building and construction — Safety Regulations — Breach — Causation — Failure to provide suitable scaffold — Whether workman would have used scaffold if provided — Whether failure to provide cause of fall — Construction (General Provisions) Regulations, 1961 (S.I. 1961, No. 1580), reg.7(2).

February 16, 1967 Building — Safety regulations — Application — Neon lighting installation — Workman repairing installation affixed to cinema — Whether “repair or maintenance of building” — Whether installation part of building — Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1948 (S.I. 1948 No. 1145), regs. 2(1), 24(1).

November 26, 1969 Master and Servant — Negligence — Injury to servant — Remoteness — Slight leg injury in course of employment — Second injury not at work caused through jumping downstairs — Allegation that leg weakness caused second accident — Novus actus interveniens.

November 27, 1969 Factory — Maintenance — Floor — Freedom from Obstruction — Obligation — Foundry — Sand floor — Pieces of metal embedded — Whether “reasonably practicable” to keep floor clear — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz.II,c.34), s.28(1).

May 13, 1969 Industrial Training — Industrial training levy — Hotel and catering industry — Statutory Order including in scope of “activities” provision of meals and lodging by members' club — Club not engaged in industry or commerce — Whether activities of industry or commerce — “Those activities” — Whether club “employers in the industry” — Validity of Order — Industrial Training Act, 1964 (1964 c.16), ss. 1(1)(2), 4(1) — Industrial Training (Hotel and Catering Board) Order 1966 (S.I. 1966 No. 1347).

October 20, 1966 Factories — Definition — Shop and workroom — Television and radio sets and electrical equipment on sale, hire and hire‐purchase in shop — Business of repair, adjustment and maintenance in workroom — Single engineer employed in workroom — Workroom business carried on in conjunction with shop business — Whether premises a “factory” — Whether engineer employed in “manual labour” — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II, c. 34), s. 175(1).

December 17, 1968 Trade dispute — Act in furtherance of — Procuring breach of contract — Inter‐union rivalry in hotel industry — Picketing hotel employing no members of union — Interference with oil contracts — Force majeure clause in oil contract — Whether in contemplation or furtherance of “trade dispute” — Whether torts by or on behalf of trade union restrainable by injunction — Trade Disputes Act, 1906 (6 Edw. VII, c. 47), ss. 3, 4(1), 5(3).