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5 The Basis of Liability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

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References

[1] Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co v English [1938] AC 57, Qualcast (Wolverhampton) Ltd v Haynes [1959] AC 743.

[2] The firearms were tested at Theobalds Road Police Station, near Great Ormond Street and the Royal Courts of Justice. Lord Justice Lawton said, “It came as a surprise to me, indeed a startling surprise, that between 1965 and 1973 the plaintiff's work was done in a room measuring 22 ft by 6 ft in a modern office block in the very centre of London.”

[3] These points were pleaded in Thompson v Smiths Shiprepairers.