Stimpson v Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1939
Year1939
CourtCourt of Appeal
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15 cases
  • Allen v Aeroplane and Motor Aluminium Castings Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 14 July 1965
    ...reported in 1940 Appeal Cases at page 152. The position was Put very clearly in the case which shortly followed that, Stimpson v. Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd. reported in 1940 1 King's Bench at page 342. At page 350, Sir Wilfrid Greene, then Masterof the Rolls, said this: "When an empl......
  • Close v Steel Company of Wales Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 23 June 1961
    ...that the case of Hindle v. Birtwistle has been cited, very, very many times. Du Parcq, L.J. vouched for it up to 1940 in Stimpson v. Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd. [1940] 1 K.B. 342 at pp. 360-1; and I can vouch for it since. There was a tendency in the time when Lord Hewart was Lord......
  • John Summers & Sons Ltd v Frost
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 March 1955
    ...a human being may be reasonably expected to act in circumstances which may be reasonably expected to occur", 61 and in Stimpson v. Standard Telephones and Cables [1940] 1 K.B. 342 he explained that in saying this he did not mean a possible cause of injury to anyone acting reasonably. The on......
  • Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 1 March 1956
    ...this House in Caswell v. Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd. [1940] A.C. 152, and by the Master of the Rolls in Stimpson v. Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd. [1940] 1 K.B. 29I refer to the facts as set out by my noble and learned friend, Lord Reid. What to my mind determines this ......
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