The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1956] 1 QB 551
[COURT OF APPEAL]
DAVISON
v.
APEX SCAFFOLDS LTD.
[1953 D. No. 125.]
1956 Jan. 19,
20,
23.
Singleton, Jenkins and Hodson L.JJ.
Building
— Safety regulations
— Scaffold
— Defective coupler
— Breach of building regulations by employee
— Use by employee of coupler not supplied by employers
— Failure of employee to co-operate in carrying out Part II of building regulations
— Employers thereby rendered in breach of regulations
— Damages
— Apportionment
—
Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1948 (S.I. 1948, No. 1145), regs. 4, 7 and 12
—
Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act, 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6, c. 28), ss. 1 and 4.
Building
— Safety regulations
— Duty on workman
— Whether limited to acts to be done by him specifically
—
Building (Safety, etc.) Regulations, 1948, reg. 4.
— Statutory Duty
— Contributory negligence.