Walker v Clarke

JurisdictionJamaica
CourtSupreme Court (Jamaica)
Year1959
Date1959

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4 cases
  • Ehoan Green v The Captain's Bakery Ltd
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 18 July 2014
    ...Carr v Mercantile Produce Co. Ltd– [1949] 2 ALL ER 531 and Smithwick v National Coal Board– [1950] 2 KB 335. In the Jamaican case of Walker v Clarke [1959] 1 WIR 143, the Court of Appeal upheld a resident magistrate's conclusion that a dough break machine is to be considered, for the purp......
  • Anthony Skeete v Electroplaters Ltd
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • Invalid date
  • Ifill v Rayside Concrete Works Ltd et Al
    • Barbados
    • High Court (Barbados)
    • 30 June 1981
    ...a dangerous part of the machine, there would be little meaning in the provision of an alternative which has just that effect.” 15 In Walker v. Clarke (1959) 1 W.I.R. 143, MacGregor, C. J., stated that the test to be applied to ascertain whether a machine is or is not dangerous is that of re......
  • Woodley v East Caribbean Metals/Plastics Industries Lyd
    • St Vincent
    • High Court (Saint Vincent)
    • 26 February 2007
    ...of these factors on the workman's senses and his performance of his job – Commonwealth Caribbean Tort Law 3rd edition pages 359-360; Walker v. Clarke (1959) 1 W.I.R. 143. To go further the Courts have been even more reluctant to hold a workman partly responsible for injury the risk of which......
1 books & journal articles
  • Failure of the basis for breach of statutory duty in tort
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 11-1, June 2001
    • 1 June 2001
    ...v. Rayside Concrete Works Ltd. (1981) 16 Barb. L.R. 193; Morris v. Seanem Fixtures Ltd. (1976) 11 Barb. L.R. 104; Walker v. Clarke (1959) 1 W.I.R. 143; Fitten v. Black Ltd. (1987) 24 J.L.R.252. In Ifill, the Barbados High Court held that this provision imposed an absolute duty on the part o......