Electric Power Transmission Pty Ltd v Cuiuli

(1961) 104 CLR 177

Kitto J: When I am asked to hold that a jury may reasonably think it negligent of an employer not to give a grown man instructions in looking after himself while cutting pieces of bush timber with a tomahawk, I feel obliged to decline on the ground of common sense to do so.

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION PTY LTD v CUIULI BC6100620

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