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Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THOMAS HEITON & CO., LTD. v. L.M.S. RAILWAY COMPANY.

(1926) 24 Ll.L.Rep. 479

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Swift.

Docks, Harbours, &c.-Loading of steamer using docks-Alleged breach of statutory and/or contractual duty of defendant dockowners to load steamer within a reasonable time, and to provide labour therefor-Strike by dock-workers, owing to various ship-workers being non-union men, found to be a circumstance over which defendants had no control-Proposal by plaintiffs to introduce outside labour found to have been rightly rejected by defendants - Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act, 1847, Sects. 21, 22, 33.

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