Excerpt from Handbook on the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897: With Approved Schemes of Compensation, Statutes Referred To, Notes on Accidents, Negligence and Misconduct, Employers' and Workmen's Liability

The very gratifying demand for this little work is principally due to the fact that it deals so largely with the question of settling disputes under the Act by means of amicable schemes of compensation, instead of by litigation, or even by arbitration. The leading lawyers of the King dom have publicly expressed in Parliament and elsewhere, their desire to give to wounded workmen and their depen dent relatives the fullest opportunity of securing compensa tion under this Act Without the costly aid of litigation. Workmen may feel assured that before the Registrar of Friendly Societies will sanction any scheme it must be fair and reasonable, and at least equivalent to the Act in its benefits to them.

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