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Proving negligence on the balance of probabilities

Proving negligence on the balance of probabilities

An employee failed to prove his employer was negligent in requiring him to lift pallets without a safe system of work. At first instance the Judge had concluded that the claimant had failed to prove that the system of work in force had given rise to a foreseeable risk of injury.

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