POOR COMPENSATION.
JUDGE’S SCATCHING COMMENT. “ I absolutely refuse to approve such a settlement as is proposed in this case. Thank God, under a decision of my own, which has been upheld by the House of Lords, I have the power to refuse miserable settlements of this kind,” exclaimed Judge Crawford angrily at Edmonton,. England, recently. So saying Judge Crawford threw into the air a bundle of papers relating to the case. The clerk, solicitors, and reporters had to duck to avoid the flying documents. Jodge Crawford was asked to approve a settlement in a workman’s compensation case. The man’s employer had offered him £45 in full settlement. “ Here is the doctor’s report, which shows that the man badly fracture his thigh and will never be able to follow his oicupation as a plasterer again,” Judge Crawford declared. “ Yet I am asked to agree to his being paid £45 in full settlement.” The judge , agreed to an adjournment for the case to be gone into.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 323, 23 January 1930, Page 2
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