Lord Wrenbury said: ‘I have long since abandoned the hope of deciding any case upon the words ‘out of and in the course of’ upon grounds satisfactory to myself or convincing to others’.
Judges:
Lord Wrenbury
Citations:
[1920] AC 757
Statutes:
Workmen’s Compensation Act 1906
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Smith v Northamptonshire County Council HL 20-May-2009
The claimant, a health care worker was visiting the home of a client when she fell from a defective wheelchair ramp and suffered injury. She sought damages from her employer.
Held: Her appeal failed (Lord Hope and Lady Hale dissenting). The . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Personal Injury
Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.346527
