June 22,1972 Damages — Remoteness — Negligence — Economic loss — Contractors damaging cable supplying electricity to factory — Physical damage to metal in factory's furnace as result of power cut — Loss of profit from “melt” and from further melts which would have taken place if no power cut — Whether economic loss recoverable — Whether economic loss attaching to physical loss recoverable — Doctrine of parasitic damages.

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February 10, 1969 Master and Servant — Negligence — Safe system of work — Roadworks — Workman in gang resurfacing carriageway injured by lorry driving too fast — Warning signs in position — Whether employers negligent in not erecting barriers against passing traffic — No evidence of common practice of erecting barriers — Effect of suggested barriers to reduce traffic to one lane — Need to balance public interest against risk to workers on carriageway — Whether lorry wholly to blame.

February 17, 1969 Negligence — Burden of proof — Latent defect — Fall of part of machine — Latent defect not discoverable on routine inspection — Defendants' purchase of second‐hand machine — Extent of duty of care — Presumption of negligence — Defendants' failure to call evidence — Effect.

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