The Weekly Law Reports
[1954] 2 WLR 812
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
MARSHALL APPELLANT; AND GOTHAM CO. LD. RESPONDENTS.
1954 Mar. 1,
2,
3,
4;
Apr. 1.
Apr. 1.
LORD OAKSEY, LORD REID, LORD TUCKER, LORD COHEN and LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM.
Mines and Minerals
— Metalliferous mines
— Regulations
— Breach of statutory duty
— Fall of roof
— Caused by slickenside
— Duty to make roof secure “so far as may be reasonably practicable”
— System of tapping
— No propping
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Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 77), s. 23
—
Metalliferous Mines General Regulations, 1938 (S.R. & O. No. 630), para. 7 (3).
Factory
— Practicability of precautions. “Reasonably practicable.”