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your ref:our ref:date:50th Nov.

1977'Dear

Citizens Rights Office,I enclose a copy of a decision of the National

Insurance Commissioner in which -I represented the.:appellant and-feel.':.yous'.=may.:-be:-especially-'interested in paragraph'0 which considers that Howarth's

.':,':case':.--'no".:longer'applies'as a -result of:subsequent legislation so."."the.'effects'.'-;:::been'::to',:.'throw'he -'-burden'-of -:proof .on'"the insured person -co'ncerned 'to -' ..-:"

-cV,: <='-that a disability of which he complains is attributable to theaccident."

:--Despite this Howarth's Case is still cited as authoritative in the Digestof the Decisions of the National Insurance Commissioner(Vol 1 Supp no 15page .126 under, the heading "Burden of Proof Disablement Benefit" )

. As the .case in,which I acted appears to - set an important pr ecedent Ithought: i t -advi sable to inf orm you about i t.

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