SMITH v. GEORGE WIMPEY & CO. LTD. AND JOHN LAING & SON LTD.

Abstract

March 22, 1972 Building and Construction — Working places regulations — Main contractor in occupation of motorway site — Subcontractors' employee injured by fall on path used as alternative means of access to and egress from working place — Whether main contractor capable of being liable to subcontractors' employee for damages for breach of regulation relating to safe access — Whether under duty to comply with “such requirements” of safe access regulation “as affect him…” to cover subcontractors' employees — Whether duty extended by addition of two words in regulation — Conflicting decision on scope of amended regulation resolved — Construction (Working Places) Regulations, 1966 (S.I. 1966 No. 94) regs. 3(1) (a) (b), 6(1) — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II, c 34) s.76(2).

Citation

Denning, M.R., Megaw, L.J. and Stamp, L.J. (1972), "SMITH v. GEORGE WIMPEY & CO. LTD. AND JOHN LAING & SON LTD.", Managerial Law, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 345-356. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb022094