HOWELL v. A.P.V. PARAMOUNT LTD.

Abstract

October 11, 1967 Negligence — Electricity — Unguarded electric wires — Electrician required to tighten wires — Mobile electric crane in course of construction — Not practice to guard wires — Whether absence of guard negligence — Electrician requiring to remove any guard to carry out work — Statutory duty — Duty to safeguard electric conductor — Fall while descending scaffolding — Whether “reasonably practicable” to guard wires — Whether employers in breach of statutory duty — Electricity Regulations, 1908 (S.R.&O. 1908, No. 1312), reg.2.

Citation

Sellers, Harman and Salmon (1968), "HOWELL v. A.P.V. PARAMOUNT LTD.", Managerial Law, Vol. 3 No. 5, pp. 567-577. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb021465