An employee's failure to apply trained isolation procedures before breaking into pipework containing caustic solution is not mere inadvertence where the very task required the employee to think through those procedures. A general admission of liability does not admit all factual allegations in the statement of claim, particularly where those allegations were expressly denied and contested at trial. Parties are bound by the conduct of their case: evidence led without objection contrary to pleaded admissions may be relied upon by the trial judge.
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