Hargreave v Haughead Coal Co Ltd: HL 12 Mar 1912

A miner was injured by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, and as the result lost one eye. His employers for a time paid him compensation for total incapacity. They applied for review of the compensation, and the arbiter ended it, finding that the miner’s incapacity had ceased. He also found that the miner had incipient cataract in the other eye, that incapacity would result gradually from the cataract, and that the cataract was not due to the accident.
Held, affirming judgment of the Second Division, that the arbiter was right in ending the compensation.

Judges:

Lord Chancellor (Loreburn), Lord Macnaghten, Lord Atkinson, Lord Shaw, and Lord Robson

Citations:

[1912] UKHL 474, 49 SLR 474

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Workmen’s Compensation Act 1906

Jurisdiction:

Scotland

Personal Injury

Updated: 26 March 2022; Ref: scu.619235