The Weekly Law Reports
[1958] 3 WLR 118
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
CADE APPELLANT; AND BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION RESPONDENTS.
1958 May 8,
12,
13;
June 25.
June 25.
VISCOUNT KILMUIR L.C., LORD MORTON OF HENRYTON, LORD COHEN, LORD EVERSHED and LORD BIRKETT.
Railway
— Statutory duty
— Permanent way men
— Man killed on line
— “Repairing the permanent way”
— Tightening loose fishplate nuts
— Whether work of “repairing”
— Meaning of “repair”
— Meaning of “working”
— Whether “danger … likely to arise”
— Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 27), s. 1; Prevention of Accidents Rules, 1902 (S.R. & O. 1902, No. 616), r. 9.
Fact or Law
— Degree, question of
— Statutory duty
— Whether “danger … likely to arise.”