The Weekly Law Reports
[1970] 2 WLR 613
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
ENMORE ESTATES LTD. APPELLANTS AND DARSAN RESPONDENT
ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE SUPREME COURT OF GUYANA
1969 Oct. 29;
1970 Jan. 14
1970 Jan. 14
Lord Hodson, Viscount Dilhorne, Lord Wilberforce, Lord Pearson and Lord Diplock
Guyana
— Workmen's Compensation
— Entitlement to
— Pre-existing diseased condition
— Workman suffering from injury to back
— Further injury caused when slipping and falling in course of employment
— Aggravation to pre-existing condition not material
— Whether workman entitled to compensation
— Accident within extended meaning
— Burden of proof
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Workmen's Compensation Ordinance (No. 63 of 1952) (Laws of British Guiana, 1953 rev., c. 111), s. 3 (1), proviso (c).[1]