GRAY v. STEAD

[1999] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 377

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION

Before Mr. Geoffrey Brice, Q.C.

Damages - Safety at sea - Personal injury - Duty of care - Wearing of life jacket - Fisherman not wearing a life jacket and on watch on deck alone - Fisherman’s body found in sea - Whether fisherman should have been furnished with single chamber inflatable life jacket and instructed to wear it whenever alone on deck - Whether defendant employers failed to exercise reasonable care.