GRAY v. STEAD

[1999] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 559

COURT OF APPEAL

Before Lord BINGHAM of Cornhill, C.J., Lord Justice Otton and Lord Justice Robert Walker

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