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The Workmen's Compensation Act and the Fatal Accidents Inquiry (Scotland) Act in Relation to Asylums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. G. Havelock*
Affiliation:
Royal Asylum, Montrose

Extract

The necessity of a cognizance of those Acts of Parliament affecting asylums in their capacity as large employers of labour has become more obvious of late by the operation of an Act which came into force in July last—“The Workmen's Compensation Act”—where, for the first time in British law, a responsibility has been cast upon an employer to pay damages or compensation for personal injuries which are not the result of any negligence or other unlawful act, either of himself or his servants for whose conduct he is legally responsible.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1899 

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