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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 21, 1973 Negligence — Master and servant — Explosive substance — Scrap metal factory — Old safe purchased for scrap — Opened with oxy‐acetylene burner — High explosive in it ignited — “Plant, tank or vessel” — Statutory duty — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II, c.34) s.31 (4).

February 5, 1969 Damages — Personal injuries — Assessment — Pension — Compulsory contribution — Police pension fund — Policeman disabled in accident — Assessment of lost earnings and pension rights — Whether pension deductible.

April 29, 1969 Building — Safety regulations — Technical breach — Regulation requiring top of ladder to be lashed before use — Staircase giving access to top of ladder — Scaling of ladder by workman to lash it — No instruction to use staircase — Fall of ladder causing injury to workman — Liability of employers — Whether workman wholly to blame — Whether oil storage tank a “building” — Applicability of safety regulations — Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1948 (S.I. 1948, No. 1145), regs. 4, 29(4).

February 11, 1969 Damages — Assessment — Fatal Accidents Acts — Dependency — Standard application — Inflation of currency — Not to be taken into account — Disturbance of jury's assessment on appeal.

March 27, 1974 Factory — Safety — Employee painting heavy object — Assistance available for turning it over — No instructions to seek assistance — Injury through handling without assistance — Employer's breach of statutory duty — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II c.34), s.72(1).

March 15, 1972 Revenue — Selective employment tax — Premium — Manufacturers of plant — Sites for construction, erection and repair of plant — Regional employment payments — Main establishment within development area — Sites of work outside development area — Whether employment of employees on sites carried out in or from establishment wholly within development area — Selective Employment Payments Act, 1966 (c.32), s.l (1), (2), — Finance Act, 1967 (c.54), s.26(l) — Revenue Act, 1968 (c.l1), s.l(2).

December 13, 1972 Docks — Port Talbot — “Dock estate” — Meaning — New harbour and jetty built adjacent to old harbour — Whether part of port of Port Talbot — “Dock work” — Discharging ore involving work with unloaders and belt conveyor system — Work not previously performed by registered dock workers — “Cargo” — “Discharging from ship” — Meanings — Dock Labour Scheme for the South Wales Ports (1942) App. (4) — Port of Port Talbot Registration Amended Scheme (1943) Sch. para. 1(1)(a) — Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. VI, c.22), s. 6 — Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) (Amendment) Order, 1967 (S. 1. 1967, No. 1252), Sch. 2, App. 1M(4).

June 28, 1972 Limitation of action — Asbestosis — Workman contracting insidious disease over number of years through employers' breach of statutory duty — Action commenced more than one year after giving up work — Lack of knowledge that disease attributable to breach of duty — Whether workman entitled to bring action outside period — Limitation Act 1963 (c.47) ss. 1(3), 7(3).