Clause 1
Compensation Bill [Lords]
9:00 am
Michael Clapham (Barnsley West and Penistone, Labour)
Is there not a danger of putting people who are doing a job of work into a difficult position from which it would be difficult to draw back? Let me give the hon. Gentleman the example of a fireman who willingly enters a building as part of his job and is injured. Linking the case to the concept of desirability, if we accept the hon. Gentleman’s proposals, could we not be creating a situation whereby such a person would find that he had accepted the risk?