Macklin and McCaughey v Concrete Piling Ltd

JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
Judgment Date01 January 1941
Date01 January 1941
CourtRecorder’s Court (Northern Ireland)
(Rec. Ct., N.I.),
Macklin and McCaughey
and
Concrete Piling Limited

-Jurisdiction - Accident arising in Scotland - Workman employed from Belfast - Jurisdiction of Courts in Northern Ireland - Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 (6Edw. 7, c. 58) - Workmen's Compensation Act (N.I.), 1927 (17 18 Geo. V, c. 16) - Workmen's Compensation Act (N.I.), 1931 (21 22 Geo. V, c. 16) - Workmen's Compensation (Supplementary Allowances) Act (N.I.) 1940 (4 Geo. VI, c. 18) -Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 16 Geo. V, c. 84) - Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1928 (English Statutes) (18 19 Geo. V, c. 24) - Government of Ireland Act, 1920 (10 11 Geo. V, c. 67).

A workman engaged in Belfast within the territorial limits of Northern Ireland was employed to do work at Scapa Flow in Scotland within the territorial limits of Great Britain, and while there met with an accident in the course of his employment. He brought a Request for Arbitration to the Recorder's Court in Belfast. On a question arising as to jurisdiction, held, that there was no jurisdiction in the Courts of Northern...

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