Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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COPELAND v. R. & H. GREEN AND SILLEY WEIR, LTD.

[1954] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 315

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Finnemore.

Negligence - Safe premises - Staging - Scaffold erected in defendants' blacksmith's shop - Plaintiff, in defendants' employ, working on scaffold-Injury to eye due to screwdriver slipping - Cause of slip - Warped plank forming part of scaffold-Scaffold erected by plaintiff's fellow-employees-Fellow-employees aware of unsuitability of plank-Risk of accident-Liability of defendants at common law and/or under Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1948.

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