“ I absolutely refuse to approve such a settlement as is proposed in this case. Thank God, under a decision of my own, which has been upheld by the House of Lords, I have the power to refuse miserable settlements of this kind,” exclaimed Judge Crawford angrily at Edmonton, England, recently. So saying the judge threw into the air a bundle of papers relating to the case. The clerk, solicitors, and reporters had to duck to avoid the flying documents. Judge Crawford was asked to approve a settlement in a workman’s compensation case. The man’s employer had offered him £45 in full settlement. “ Here is the doctor’s report, which shows that the man badly fractured his thigh and will never be able to follow his occupation as a plasterer again,” Judge Crawford declared. “Yet I am asked to agree to his being paid £45 in full settlement.” The judge agreed to an adjournment for the case to be gone into. _
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Otago Witness, Issue 3954, 24 December 1929, Page 28
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