Hearings
21 Nov 1952 [1953] 1 QB 167, CA
01 Apr 1954 [1954] AC 360; [1954] 2 WLR 812; [1954] 1 All ER 937, HL
Marshall v Gotham Co Ltd
Subject Matter
MINES — 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 — Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 77), s. 23 — Metalliferous Mines General Regulations, 1938 (S.R. & O. No. 630), reg. 7 (3).
FACTORY — Practicability of precautions. “Reasonably practicable.”