The Weekly Law Reports
[1964] 3 WLR 479
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
HALEY APPELLANT; AND LONDON ELECTRICITY BOARD RESPONDENTS.
1964 June 8,
9,
10,
11;
July 28.
July 28.
LORD REID, LORD MORTON OF HENRYTON, LORD EVERSHED, LORD HODSON and LORD GUEST.
Negligence
— Duty of care to whom?
— Blind person
— Excavation in pavement
— Excavation guarded by sloping handle of punner-hammer
— Guard sufficient for sighted person
— Blind person tripped up by handle and injured
— Ambit of duty owed to pedestrians.
Judicial Precedent
— Extempore judgment
— Weight
— Judgment of Court of Appeal
— Ex tempore after inadequate argument
— Whether equally authoritative with decision after full argument and with mature consideration.