Cameron v Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital

Subject Matter

MASTER AND SERVANT — Truck Acts — Deductions from wages for board, lodging and laundry — Part of wages paid otherwise than in current coin — Claim for recovery of amounts so deducted — Domestic servant — Stoker employed in hospital — Hospital a domestic establishment — Failure of claim — Truck Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 37), ss. 1, 3, 4, 20, 23 — Employers and Workmen Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 90), s. 10 — Truck Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 46), s. 2 — Truck Act, 1940 (3 & 4 Geo. 6, c. 38), s. 1.