Wheeler v Copas
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1981 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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11 cases
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British Waterways v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Plc
...Ltd [1969] 1 WLR 1695 but cf Ross v Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd [1964] 1WLR 768 HL). However the Claimant relies upon Wheeler v Copas [1981] 3 AER 405, in which a labour-only subcontractor was provided with an inadequate ladder by the defendant, and the defendant was found ......
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Mohd bin Sapri v Soil-Build (Pte) Ltd and another appeal
...espoused by Edmund Davies LJ was adopted, although no express reference to Edmund Davies LJ`s reasoning was made. In Wheeler v Copas [1981] 3 All ER 405, the defendant had provided a ladder to the plaintiff bricklayer which proved unsuitable and resulted in injury. The defendant was held li......
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Arnold Hughes Claimant v Caribseas Ltd Defendant [ECSC]
...the capacity in which they come, whether as invitees, licensees or other contractors. He also cites the case of Wheeler V Copas (1981) 3 ALL ER 405 (1981) 3 ALL ER 405., a case involving equipment provided to a contractor, where it was held that there is a duty to provide suitable equipment......
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Ivor Desmond Bloomfield v Albany Roofing Services Ltd
...necessary for his safety, he sought support from two authorities. The first was Kealey v. Heard (1983) 1 W.L.R. 573 and the second was Wheeler v. Copas (1981) 3 All E.R. 405. In the case of Kealey v. Heard the defendant, having purchased a pair of semi-derelict houses to rehabilitate them, ......
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3 books & journal articles
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The site
...the owner/occupier is not liable under the legislation for the provision of unsuitable or faulty plant or equipment: Wheeler v Copas [1981] 3 all Er 405; cf Bunker v Charles Brand & Son Ltd [1969] 2 all Er 59 at 63–64, per O’Connor J. Furthermore, a duty equivalent to that under occupiers’ ......
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The legal and commercial frameworks
...age?” [2019] ICLr 296. 260 See, eg, Burr, “Moving from paS 1192 to ISO 19650” (2019) 35 Const LJ 72. 261 See, eg, Wheeler v Copas [1981] 3 all Er 405 at 407, per Chapman J. 44 ...
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Contract administration
...a responsible project manager was “a classic case of an employer being penny-wise and pound foolish”. Furthermore, in Wheeler v Copas [1981] 3 All ER 405, where a farmer (the defendant) engaged a range of contractors to build a house on his farm under his supervision , Chapman J observed (a......