Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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SLAYFORD v. HARLAND & WOLFF, LTD.

(1948) 82 Ll.L.Rep. 160

COURT OF APPEAL.

Before Lord Justice Tucker, Lord Justice Asquith and Mr. Justice Jenkins.

Shipbuilding Regulations, 1931 - Safe means of access - Staging - Design - Repairs to ship in dry dock-Fall from staging - Personal injuries sustained by plaintiff engaged in welding work to hull of ship in dry dock - Staging (planks on trestles) erected by defendant ship-repairers (plaintiff's employers)-Evidence that planks overlapped, and that plaintiff stumbled against overlap when ducking under spawl - Alleged negligence and/or breach of statutory duty by defendants -Regulations 1, 11 (b) (i).

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