ABSTRACT
Ernest Dobson's proposal that the Surgeon should undertake the medico-legal work of the National Union of Railwaymen was enthusiastically welcomed by the Hospital’s Executive Committee, and the facilities of the Hospital were placed at his disposal to carry it out. The next trade union representative to interview the Resident Surgeon was Sidney Taylor, the Secretary of the Alltogether Builders Union. This chapter describes in some detail a few of Sir Ambrose Woodall’s cases. Take, for example, the case of the fractured neck, heard before Mr. Justice Hilbery in the High Court. The chapter considers the case of an injured blastfurnaceman. He was employed in the Britannia Works at Middlesbrough. Sir Ambrose was often associated in workmen’s compensation claims with one of the best-known barristers practising in this type of case, William Shakespeare, and sometimes with R. S. T. Chorley, both of whom became intimate and valued friends.
