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…Counsel said had the judge not committed these errors, he would have awarded a much higher compensation to the appellant, who on the medical evidence, suffered fairly serious injuries.…

…He did not think a great deal of the medical evidence and of the plaintiff’s viva voce evidence of the extent of his injuries.…

…The only medical evidence adduced was that of an Orthopaedic Surgeon who reported on the plaintiff on June 18th, 1986. Dr Khandwalla assessed the plaintiff’s age as 56 years and found a head and dental injury.…

…Medical evidence was that at his age, and with the kind of injury he sustained, a man is not suitable for a watchman’s job. His employer was prepared to continue to employ him.…

…In a judgement which ran into twenty pages of typescript and which is difficult to fault, the learned Judge summarised the 1st respondent’s injuries and related the medical evidence and the prognosis of the 1st respondent…

…There may be cases where medical evidence may be misleading enough to enable one judge to grant such leave but when correct medical data may be brought forward by the defendant, the picture may drastically change.…