A worker's inchoate rights to workers' compensation for industrial deafness must be deducted from common law damages even where those rights have not been crystallised by agreement or award. The risk that the worker may not recover the same level of compensation in the Compensation Court does not prevent the deduction. Workers should crystallise their compensation rights before or concurrently with common law proceedings to avoid this risk.
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