Walker v Bletchley Flettons

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1937
Year1937
CourtKing's Bench Division
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41 cases
  • Wigley v British Vinegars Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 28 July 1961
    ...of security which was adopted by the Judge, based on the well-known passage from the Judgment of Mr. Justice du Pareq in Walker v. Bletchley Flettons Ltd., 1937 1 All England Reports, 170, at page 175. We should for ourselves, in applying that passage, frame the test in this way: "Did this......
  • Close v Steel Company of Wales Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 2 June 1960
    ...interpretation of the word 'dangerous'". 12The case was followed by later decisions including that of Mr. Justice du Parcq in Walker v. Bletchlev (Flettons) Ltd., 1937, 1 All England Reports, 170, to which Mr. Hooson particularly referred and which related to injury inflicted in analogous ......
  • John Summers & Sons Ltd v Frost
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 March 1955
    ...not only the risk run by a skilled and careful man who never relaxes his vigilance. An observation of the late Lord du Parcq in Walker v. Bletchley Flettons, Ltd. [1937] 1 A.E.R 170 to the effect that a machine is dangerous "if it is a possible cause of injury to anybody acting in a way in ......
  • Allen v Avon Rubber Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 May 1986
    ...the appellant was working was safe or not it seems to me appropriate to apply the test formulated by Lord Justice Du Parcq in Walker v. Bletchley Flettons, [1937] 1 AER 170 at page 175 subject to the amendment suggested by Lord Reid in John Summers & Sons v. Frost [1953] AC 740 at page 766.......
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