"A GROSS INJUSTICE."
RIGHTS OF CIVTIi SERVANTS. TJudor thn Crown Suits Amendment Act, 1910, the limit of the Crown's lio.bility for bodily injuries suffered by any person through the default or neglect of anv servant of the Crown is fixed at .12000, Imt Hip effect of Section 8 of the Crown Suite Amendment Act is that if the person injured bo himself an employee of the Crown encased in cam-ins out his duties, ho or his dependants cannot recover more than ,£SOO. These facts lyoro set out by Mr. C. E. Stathnm (Dune'flin Central) in n. (|iie;lion mhlrcfscd in th-3 lloiiso of Ttcprc-enbiives to the Jfini?(cr for Justice, of which lie »nvo notice yrstcvdp.y. He urced that this a giw injiistiee to Civil Servants and ho aflcetl the JFinistcr whether he would introduce 'lc!ri~hlion to repeal the psclion which ?or.io;isly curtailed the righti (if tho«e Civil Servants, or (lie dependants nf thotfs Civil Kcrvants who may be injured or lcilk'd in the rouv.-o. of (heir employment.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1484, 5 July 1912, Page 5
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166"A GROSS INJUSTICE." Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1484, 5 July 1912, Page 5
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