Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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BISHOP v. J. S. STARNES & SONS LTD. AND MACANDREWS & CO. LTD. MACANDREWS & CO. LTD. (THIRD PARTY) MARITIME RIGGING AND SCALING COMPANY LTD. (FOURTH PARTY)

[1971] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 162

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

Before Mr. Justice Dunn (sitting as an additional Judge of the Queen's Bench Division)

Negligence - Duty of care - Fitter gassed in forepeak tank of ship where contractors had run a petrol pump - Liability of employers, shipowners and contractors - Applicability of Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations, 1960, regulations 48, 50, 51 and 531 - Occupiers' Liability Act, 1957, sect. 22 - Whether plaintiff contributorily negligent.

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