April 18, 1967 Confidence — Confidential information — Duty — Patented invention — Confidential disclosure of similar features during business negotiations — Unconscious use of information without consent — Partly public and partly private information — Damages.
March 19, 1970 Building — Safety Regulations — Scaffold — Left “partly … dismantled” — Workman properly provided with trestles — User of scaffold for balancing — Whether scaffold “capable of being used” — Construction (Working Places) Regulations, 1966 (S.I. 1966, No. 94), regs. 4, 7, 12.
May 2, 1969 Master and Servant — Wrongful dismissal — Trade union member — Contract of employment incorporating agreement between employers' association and union — Employers' association terminating agreement by notice to union district delegate — Effect on contract of employment between union member and employer — Whether contract of employment terminated.
June 27, 1966 Damages — Personal injuries — Future uncertainty — Brain damage — Minor epilepsy controlled by drugs — 50/ 50 chance of major epilepsy developing — Whether £8,000 proper sum — No prognosis until five years after accident — Suitable case for postponement of hearing — R.S.C., Ord.36, r.34; Ord.35b, r.2.
May 28, 1968 Factory — Floor — Maintenance — Slippery substance — Obligation to keep floor free from “so far as is reasonably practicable” — Extent of statutory duty — Whether necessary for plaintiff to show that reasonable occupier would have foreseen presence of substance on floor — Whether occupier's duty discharged by provision of proper system of cleaning of floor — Whether discharged by entrusting work resulting in substance on floor to responsible workman — Onus of proof — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz.II, c.34), s.28(1).
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