Hearings
Guyana
14 Jan 1970 [1970] AC 497; [1970] 2 WLR 613, PC
Enmore Estates Ltd v Darsan
Subject Matter
EMPLOYMENT — 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 — Workmen's Compensation Ordinance (No 63 of 1952) (Laws of British Guiana, 1953 Rev, c 111), s 3 (1) (c)
Appellate History
Enmore Estates Ltd v Darsan (1967) 9 WIR 499
Judgment of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Guyana reversed
Enmore Estates Ltd v Darsan [1970] AC 497; [1970] 2 WLR 613, PC