The Weekly Law Reports
[1965] 3 WLR 456
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION.]
REGINA
v.
INDUSTRIAL INJURIES COMMISSIONER.
Ex parte HUMPHREYS.
Ex parte HUMPHREYS.
1965 May 19.
Lord Parker C.J., Sachs and Browne JJ.
National Insurance
— Industrial injuries benefit
— Increase of disablement pension (“special hardship allowance”)
— Claimant working in Wrexham area
— Incapacity to follow “regular occupation” as ripper
— Employment obtained in Doncaster area as welder-burner
— Wage rate higher in Doncaster than in Wrexham
— Comparison of “probable standard of remuneration” in regular occupation and in “employments if any suitable in his case and which he is likely to be capable of following”
— Whether standard of ripper in Doncaster applicable
— Surrender of employment in Doncaster area for “domestic reasons”
— Whether domestic reasons irrelevant to suitability of employment
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National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 62) s. 14 (1) (4) as amended by National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 42) s. 1.