Butterworth's Workmen's Compensation Cases

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Alfred Henry Ruegg, Francis Joseph Coltman, Douglas Knocker, Edgar Thorniley Dale
Butterworth., 1924
Vol. 6 includes reports of cases dealing with national insurance and general insurance (other than marine).

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الصفحة 125 - and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman, his employer shall, subject as hereinafter mentioned, be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the First Schedule to this Act.
الصفحة 369 - The failure to make a claim within the period above specified shall not be a bar to the maintenance of such proceedings if it is found that the failure was occasioned by mistake, absence from the United Kingdom, or other reasonable cause.
الصفحة 366 - the failure to make a claim within the period . . . specified shall not be a bar to the maintenance of such proceedings if it is found that the failure was occasioned by mistake, absence from the United Kingdom, or other reasonable cause.
الصفحة 363 - and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman," compensation in accordance with the First Schedule of the Act shall be awarded, and that schedule provides by section (1) that a certain
الصفحة 363 - the course of his employment, and that the accident caused injury which resulted in incapacity, the statutory conditions of compensation would be satisfied. And the word " accident " is used in the statute " in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed "—per Lord Macnaghten in
الصفحة 125 - partial incapacity for work arising from the injury and prescribes the liability as follows : " A weekly payment during the incapacity not exceeding 50 per cent, of his average weekly earnings during the previous twelve months . . . such weekly payment not to exceed
الصفحة 369 - of the. accident, or, in case of death, within six months: from the time of death." This provision is quite reasonable in ordinary circumstances, where the claimant would know the time of death and would be able to make the claim within the prescribed time ; but it was felt that there should be a dispensing power in certain cases provided
الصفحة 94 - is as follows :—" If it is proved that the workman has, at the time of entering the employment, wilfully and falsely represented himself in writing as not having previously suffered from the disease, compensation shall not be payable.
الصفحة 216 - If where a workman seeks to record a memorandum of an agreement between his employer and himself, the employer alleges that the workman has in fact returned to work and is earning the same wages as he did before the accident, and objects to the recording of the memorandum, the
الصفحة 378 - 1 (1) provides that if in any employment personal injury by an accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman,