Cammell Laird & Company Ltd v Manganese Bronze and Brass Company Ltd

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Tomlin,Lord Warrington of Clyffe,Lord Russell of Killowen,Lord Macmillan,Lord Wright
Judgment Date27 March 1934
Judgment citation (vLex)[1934] UKHL J0327-1
Date27 March 1934
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • James Slater and Hamish Slater (A Firm) and Others v Finning Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 4 July 1996
    ...not to be reasonably fit for use as part of the engine of Aquarius II. 10Counsel for the appellants relied on Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. v. The Manganese Bronze and Brass Co. Ltd. [1934] A.C. 402. In that case the defendants had contracted to supply for two ships under construction by the pl......
  • Hill (Christopher) Ltd v Ashington Piggeries Ltd (Description)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 July 1969
    ...description). 190 The question left open by the Med way case was authoritatively answered by the House of Lords in Cammell Laird & Co. v. The Manganese Bronze and Brass Co. (1934) Appeal Cases 402. It is unnecessary to refer to the facts of that case. Lord Wright, with whose statement of th......
  • Hardwick Game Farm v Suffolk Agricultural Poultry Producers Association
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 20 December 1965
    ...are entitled to rely on the decisions of the House of Lords in Manchester Liners v. Rea (1922 2 Appeal Cases page 74), Cammell Laird & Co. v. Manganese Bronze & Brass Co. (1934 Appeal Cases page 402) and Grant Australian Knitting Mills (1936 Appeal Cases page 85) as containing expressions o......
  • Hill (Christopher) Ltd v Ashington Piggeries Ltd (Description)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 February 1971
    ...19It is well settled that the reliance on the seller's skill and judgment need not be total or exclusive: see Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. v. Manganese Bronze and Brass Company Ltd. [1934] A.C. 402 per Lord Wright at page 427 and the earlier case of Medway Oil and Storage Co. Ltd. v. Silica Ge......
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  • The case of the sugar in the concrete: contaminated cargo
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 10 June 2015
    ...including some (at the time) recently decided leading cases such as Cammell Laird & Co Ltd v Manganese Bronze & Brass Company Ltd [1934] AC 402; Hardwick Game Farm v S.A.P.P.A [1969] 2 AC 31; and Ashington Piggeries Ltd v Christopher Hill Ltd [1972] AC Duty of care owed but to what ......
  • Gone With The Wind: Little Sympathy For Contractors On Design Obligations
    • United States
    • Mondaq United States
    • 11 October 2017
    ...There was no better summary of the law than the dictum of Lord Wright in Cammell Laird and Co Ltd v The Manganese Bronze and Brass Co Ltd [1934] AC 402, where he "It has been laid down that where a manufacturer or builder undertakes to produce a finished result according to a design or plan......

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