Riordan v Clyde Shipping Company

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Court: Supreme Court
• Judgment Date: 20 December 1944
• Date: 20 December 1944

(S.C.),

Riordan

and

Clyde Shipping Co

-Total incapacity of workman - Serious and permanent disablement -Unauthorised act by workman - Finding that act was performed "for the purpose of and in connection with" employers' trade or business -Whether "deemed to arise out of and in the course of" the employment - Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 (No. 9 of 1934), s. 15, sub-s 2.

1. Sect. 15, sub-s. 2, of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934, provides:—"Where an accident results in the death or serious and permanent disablement of a workman, such accident shall for the purpose of this Act, be deemed to arise out of and in the course of his employment notwithstanding the fact that such workman was at the time when such accident happened acting in contravention of any statutory or other regulation applicable to his employment, or of any orders given by or on behalf of his...