Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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CORAKIS AND ANOTHER v. RYE-ARC, LTD.

(1948) 82 Ll.L.Rep. 609

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Morris.

Negligence - Damage to ship's wireless installation-Welding operations-Contributory negligence - Statutory duty upon shipowners to disconnect aerial- Defendants employed to carry out welding operations in connection with fitting of protective slabs to outside walls of wireless room on plaintiffs' steamship-Use of electric welding instrument-Coils of wireless transmitter found burnt out-Cause of damage-Shipowners required for security reasons to disconnect wireless aerials while ship in port-Evidence that aerial was dismantled and coiled but not disconnected from transmitter -Wireless Telegraphy (Ships) No. 2 Order, 1942.

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