§ Mr. GILLasked whether it is in accordance with the Regulations relating to medical referees under the Workmen's Compensation Act for a doctor, who is in partnership with an official medical referee, to examine injured persons on behalf of an insurance company when 1418 such cases may be afterwards referred to his partner for final decision?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLIt would as a general rule be considered incompatible with the position of a referee for his partner to hold, as part of the partnership, an appointment for an insurance company in connection with workmen's compensation cases. The Home Office has not objected to the partner of a referee holding such an appointment outside the partnership agreement, so that the referee has no interest in it; and to do so would, I am afraid, militate against the Department getting the best men for the post of referee.