PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. AS many actions are still brought under the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, I have thought it necessary to deal with that Act as fully as heretofore. In this Edition I have incorporated the decisions which have been pronounced by the Courts of Appeal in England, Scotland, and Ireland, both upon the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, and the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1897 and 1900. I have adhered to the rule observed in former Editions of omitting the decisions given in the County Courts in England, and the inferior Courts in Scotland and Ireland, except where such decisions have been appealed. I have adopted this course not from any want of respect to the Judges, who have, either as judges or arbitrators, given decisions in the first instance as to the construction and meaning of the Acts. I am well aware that many of such judgments and decisions display much close reasoning and ability, but as they are not allowed to be cited in the Courts of Appeal, and are often quite inconsistent with, and contradictory of one another, I retain the opinion that the inclusion of them, in a work of this kind, would be more likely to confuse than to assist the legal practitioner who wishes to ascertain, with some approach to definiteness, the present condition of the law on this important subject. LAMB BUILDING, TEMPLE, E.C., April, 1903. A. H. R. |