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CLAIMS CHIEF JUSTICE’S ADVICE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The necessity for' the /prompt notification of intention to claim in compensation cases was stressed by the cjiief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court. He remarked that he had seen a ■great njany cases where there had been unreasonable delay on the part of employees who were injured that they intended to bring claims in common law. His Honor said his observation was not intended to reflect upon anybody. It was just a general observation that prompt, notice should be given, other-. wjs,c ait employer was likely to be prejudiced. It was not fair for a wcjrker to go on accepting compensation for a period, when ha . intended to bring an action in common law. 'An employer should also bq fair and reasonable, of course, and not stop ’payments because an action in. common law was intended to be brought. When it was plain that a man was entitled to some remedy, compensation should continue for a reasonable time to enable the worker to bring action.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 11
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181NEED FOR EXPEDITION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 11
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