Read the full judgment text of HCA 006355/1987 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 December 1989.
1. The plaintiff sues both defendants for damages for personal injury arising from an accident at work which occasioned on the 30th October 1985 whilst in the employ of both defendants as a printing technician. He was then 24 years old. On that day he was on duty inside the defendants' workshop operating a guillotine for cutting paper for use in the printing process. As he was pulling a bundle of paper from the machine the guillotine knife descended through no cause of the plaintiff and cut thro