POWELL v.. DOCKS AND INLAND WATERWAYS EXECUTIVE.

(1949) 83 Ll.L.Rep. 107

COURT OF APPEAL.

Before Lord Justice Tucker, Lord Justice Singleton and Lord Justice Jenkins.

Master and servant-Common employment -Directed labour - Port transport worker - Safe system of working - Personal injuries sustained by plaintiff stevedore while unloading machinery from railway wagons in Middlesbrough dock-Negligence of railway company's servants in charge of shunting operations - Plaintiff allocated to railway company under Dock Labour Scheme- Whether plaintiff was a general employee of the National Dock Labour Corporation and was employed temporarily by railway company- Applicability of doctrine of common employment - Whether plaintiff in common employment with railway company's servants in charge of shunting operations - Effect of Scheme - Risks impliedly undertaken - "Ordinary traffic risk"-Alleged failure by rail way company to provide safe system of working - Essential Work (Dock Labour) Order, 1943 (S.R. & O., No. 1114).