MOTOR ACCIDENTS
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Question of Damages
(By Telegrapli-
WELLINGTON, Saturday. The Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G. E. Mason, says that amoug the major measures that Parliament will be asked to consider at the coming session will be legislation to do away with the ueed for proving uegligence as a basis for damages for injuries caused by motor cars. He said that the measure would be original a.s far as concerns thosc parts of the Ayorld where the law is based on the common latv of England. There was an analogy in the Worker's Compensation Act where the worker gets compensation for injury, irrespective of whether it arose throngh any fault on tlie part of tlie employer and irrespective of ihe question of public policy. "A change has beeome a practical necessity owing to the complexity of issues relating to contributory nogUgence which has developed in the courts.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 197, 6 September 1937, Page 10
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