IMPORTANT JUDGMENT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 91, 17 April 1923, Page 8

IMPORTANT JUDGMENT

UNDER ARBITRATION ACT.

(II TILEOKAM.—PHDSB ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The Arbitration Court to-day issued an important judgment setting out the basis on which a lump sum should be computed to arrive at compensation for permanent partial incapacity resulting from injuries not scheduled under the Workers' Compensation Act. Hitherto such cases have been settled out of CouTt on the basis of the judgment in Campbell v. the Taupiri Coal Mines, which was a finding dealing only with scheduled injuries. The Court held that nonschedule cases must be dealt with under section 5 of the Act. The ratio laid down _by_ section 8, dealing with scheduled injuries, compensation for permanent partial injuries must bear the same ratio to the amount payable for total incapacity as the schedule percentage bore to 100 per cent. No Buch limitation existed for_ non-schedule injuries. The computation of a lump sum was based on a period of six years with a- limit of £750. The Court, therefore, gave judgment in favour of Lawrence Maloney, coachbuilder, Wellington, against Munt, Cottrell, and Company, Limited.