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April 21, 1969 Offices, Shops and Railway Premises — Employment of young persons — Safety precautions — Bacon slicer blade in butcher's shop — Young employee injured while cleaning blade — Whether blade “moving part” of machinery — “Exposes” to risk of injury — Whether employers used all “due diligence” to prevent the injury — Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963 (c.41), ss. 18(1), 67.

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April 17, 1969 Master and Servant — Redundancy — “Place where the employee was so employed” —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 contract by employer and acceptance by employees — Whether employees “dismissed” — Whether entitled to redundancy payments — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), ss.1, 2(3), (a), 3,(1) (c)

July 26, 1972 National insurance — Industrial injuries benefit — Disablement benefit — Special hardship allowance — Claimant injured in industrial accident — Return by claimant to pre‐accident work — Subsequent aggravation of injuries compelling claimant to give up work — Refusal by Commissioner of claim for special hardship allowance for period between giving up of work and claim — Commissioner's decision that no reasonable cause shown for failing to claim within statutory period — Whether information by insurance clerk at time of resumption of work that no special hardship entitlement a reasonable cause — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1965 (c.52) s.14(1) — National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) (Claims and Payments) Regulations, 1964 (S.I. 1964 No.73).

November 13, 1972 National Insurance — Disablement benefit — Dermatitis — Medical appeal tribunal's finding of dermatitis wholly constitutional in origin set aside as incompatible with finding of industrial dermatitis by insurance officer when dealing with claim for injury benefit — Whether decision of second medical appeal tribunal varying decision of first tribunal included statement of reasons for decision including findings on all material questions of fact as required by Regulation 12 (1) of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) (Determination of Claims and Questions) No. 2 Regulations, 1967 (S. I. 1967 No. 1571).

National insurance — Industrial injuries benefit — Injury ‘arising out of and in the course of employment’ — Peripatetic employee ceasing employment at one place of employment — Injury sustained while proceeding to next place of employment — Whether entitled to industrial injury benefit — Whether injury ‘arising out of and in the course of employment’.

May 1, 1969 Redundancy — Calculation of payment — Continuity of employment — National trade union agreement providing for employment by any electricity board to be treated as continuous — Employee transferred from one area board to another — Subsequent return to employment of first board — Whether continuity of employment broken — Whether analogy with “associated company” applicable — “Absent from work” — “Regarded as contriving in the employment…” — Companies Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 38), s.154 — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (11 & 12 Eliz.2, c.49), Sch.1 paras. 5(1) (c), 10,10A — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), s.48(4) (5).

October 20, 1972 Trade union — Expulsion — Construction of rules — Member employed by non‐union firm — Liability under rules to expulsion — Whether discretion to impose penalty less than expulsion — No notice of charge — Member not told of right to appeal to executive council — Validity of expulsion — National Graphical Association Rules, 1961, rr.37(10), 38(1).