What had to be proven under the Act was whether the offending action was (a)
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the product of ‘a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default
of another person
[emphasis added], an accident or some other cause beyond his control’ and; (b)
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whether or not the
company
, by way of its upper management, had taken ‘all reasonable precautions and exercised all due