Keavy v O'Brien

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1939
• Date: 01 January 1939
• Court: Circuit Court

(Cir. Ct.),

Keavy

and

O'Brien

-Fee - Medical examination of workman by employer's doctor -Presence of workman's doctor - Demand that employer pay workman's doctor's fee - Refusal to submit to medical examination unless such fee be paid by employer - Suspension of right to compensation - Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934, s. 33 (1).

A workman is not entitled to insist on his employer paying a fee for the attendance of his own doctor as a condition of his submitting himself to a medical examination by his employer's doctor. So held by Judge Sealy on an application for an order suspending the workman's right...