The Weekly Law Reports
[1973] 2 WLR 135
[COURT OF APPEAL]
WESTWOOD
v.
POST OFFICE
[1970 W. No. 2744]
1972 Nov. 2,
3;
23
Davies, Karminski and Lawton L.JJ.
Office Premises
— Telephone exchange
— Lift machinery
— Notice stating that only authorised attendant permitted to enter
— Room occasionally used by technicians employed on premises as means of access to roof for recreation
— Technician fatally injured by trap door in lift room floor giving way
— Whether room part of “office premises”
— Whether Post Office liable for breach of statutory duty
—
Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (c. 41), ss. 1 (2), 16 (1) (4)
136
Negligence
— Duty of care to whom?
— Trespasser
— Post Office occupying telephone exchange
— Technician employed on premises
— Using lift room as means of access to roof for recreation
— Notice on door forbidding entry
— Dangerous floor
— Technician fatally injured
— Whether Post Office liable to widow
— Whether contributory negligence by technician