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Damages

20 March 2015
Issue: 7645 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Milroy (a protected party by Mrs Sharon Maria Milroy, his litigation friend) v British Telecommunications plc [2015] EWHC 532 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 84 (Mar)

While working for the defendant employer British Telecom, the claimant was injured. He brought an action for damages against the defendant alleging, inter alia, breach of Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (SI 2306/98) and regulation 4(3) of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (SI 635/1989). The Queen’s Bench Division held that the breach had been made out and that the claimant was entitled to damages to be assessed, subject to a reduction of one third in respect of contributory negligence.

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