The appellant’s employers made a pathway over lands belonging to them by which their workmen obtained access to their work by a route shorter than the public road. The workmen were permitted, but not bound or entitled, to use this short-cut. The pathway at a point three-quarters of a-mile from the place of work contained some steps, down which the appellant fell, injuring himself.
Held that the County Court Judge was right in deciding that the accident did not arise ‘in the course of the employment,’ and that there was no evidence upon which he could have decided the contrary.
Judges:
Lord Chancellor (Loreburn), Lords Atkinson, Shaw, and Robson
Citations:
[1911] UKHL 623
Links:
Statutes:
Workmen’s Compensation Act 1906
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Employment, Personal Injury
Updated: 17 June 2022; Ref: scu.619198
