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November 26, 1970 Factory — Statutory duty — Admitted breach by employer — Machinery not adequately fenced — Injury to machine operator — Accident caused by accidental error of operator in course of duty — Liability of employer — Whether blame to be attached to workman having regard to employer's breach of duty.

November 10, 1970 Docks — Dock work — Waterside manufacturers carrying on loading and unloading operations from and into ships — Port transport work — Labour scheme equating “port transport work” with “dock work” — “Port transport work” not to include work of “waterside manufacturers” except where work that of “a public wharfinger and/or master lighterman and/or master stevedore” — Whether work carried on within exception — Whether “dock work” — Docks and Harbours Act, 1966 (c.28), s.58(1) — Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) (Amendment) Order, 1967 (S.I.1967, No. 1252), Sch. 2.

February 15, 1974 Master and servant — Wrongful dismissal — Gardener — Contract providing for six months' service and thereafter terminable annually — Obscene language on one occasion by efficient gardener — Provocation by employer — Whether summary dismissal justified.

October 13, 1970 Redundancy — Redundancy payment — Entitlement — Apprentices — Deeds of apprenticeship making apprenticeships assignable — Apprentices serving three masters during five‐year period — Whether “continuously employed” — Meaning — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), ss.1(1), 8 (1) (2) — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (c.49), Sch. 1, para. 10(1).

October 15, 1970 Industrial Training — Industrial training levy — Hotel and catering industry — Statutory Order including in scope of activities “supply… of food and drink to persons for immediate consumption” — Food and drink supplied to intermediary for consumption by other persons — Company supplying prepared meals to airlines — Consumed by passengers at mealtimes — Whether “immediate consumption” — Whether company engaged in “activity” within scope of Order — Whether levy properly imposed — Industrial Training Act, 1964 (c.16), s.4(l) — Industrial Training (Hotel and Catering Board) Order, 1966 (S.1. 1966, No. 1347), Sch. 1, para. 1(a) — Industrial Training Levy (Hotel and Catering) Order, 1968 (S.I. 1968, No. 921), para. 2(1) (h) (i).

October 9, 1970 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Dismissal — Ill health — Union's letter re. redundancy — Whether “notice” of claim — Construction — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62),s.21.

The popularity of electric and hybrid cars has been growing worldwide, and Portugal is no exception. Companies have been offered incentives as a way to promote the transition to more sustainable transportation systems and supply chains. Celebrities and influencers are endorsing the new technology, and consumer preferences are changing. However, in Portugal, there are still consumers with misconceptions about the autonomy, cost and reliability of electric cars, which may favour the choice of a conventional car, in a new car purchase decision-making process.

In this study, we analyse whether purchase intention in the near future of an electric car varies with a pro-environmental lifestyle, perceived symbolic value of the electric car, mobility patterns, age, and place of residence, (performance, social, financial and externalities) risk avoidance, consumer perceptions, knowledge about the cost, the autonomy and the existing infrastructures. A sample of 308 Portuguese consumers was collected with an online survey. Results from survey subsample analysis of 170 consumers who unequivocally claim that would opt for an electric vehicle or not show a positive relationship between the purchase intention of an electric car, the fuel cost increase, the proximity of convenient charging places and battery lifetime perception. It was also found that age, knowledge and perceived symbolic value of the electric car, in general, have a positive influence on consumers' choice of an electric car. A negative relationship was found between the purchase intention, social and financial risk avoidance, perceived symbolic value of the electric car in particular and the number of cars each family has.

Recent research suggests positive links between adolescents' participation in sports and the quality of their relationships with their fathers. It is unclear, however, the degree to which the gendered nature of sports, and in particular the ways sports have been used to define and express masculinity, mean that these important links between sports participation and parent–child relationships might or might not extend to relationships with mothers. Recent scholarship connects joint recreational activities to mother–child relationships, but here we extend these ideas in connection to adolescents' formal sports participation. We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health from the United States to evaluate potential connections between adolescent sports participation and maternal relationships, focusing on the adolescent's perspective on joint activities with mother, closeness to and warmth and communication with mother, and satisfaction with the relationship with mother. We also examine whether these associations differ for boys and girls. We found that adolescents' sports participation was good for relationships with their mothers, but also that there were gender differences in how sport paid off for boys and girls. We discuss our findings in terms of contemporary shifts in gendered norms and conclude that gender may remain salient to how sports participation can promote mother–child relationships.