RESERVED DECISION

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23964, 3 June 1943, Page 6

RESERVED DECISION

JUDGMENT BY COMPENSATION COURT In a claim by J. Fairman, a miner, o£ Dobson, against Grey Valley Collieries. Ltd. (now in liquidation), which was heard before the Compensation Court at Greymouth on April 16, and in which judgment was deferred, a lump sum of £llO 2s 4d has been awarded by Mr Justice O’Regan. • Fairman had suffered injuries to a knee and a leg when employed by the defending company. In giving his decision, his Honour said: "In the preserit case the plaintiff was a man Inured to hard labour and not fitted for clerical work. Were he a clerical worker, his injuries could not affect his earning capacity, and so there could be no further claim to compensation. Under the circumstances, I have decided to allow him a lump sum in that it seems desirable that the liquidator of the defendant company should be relieved of the obligation to make provision for an indefinite liability, and it seems not less undesirable to oblige the plaintiff to rely on his rights under section 47 of the Act”