Cases - The Larchbank
Record details
- Name
- The Larchbank
- Date
- (1943)
- Citation
- AC 299 62&
- Keywords
- Party walls
- Summary
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This case considered the meaning of emergency in the wholly different context of a direction that ships should not use whistles or sirens in a fog except in emergency. The House of Lords defined an emergency as the reasonable apprehension of an immediate danger or the near approach of danger.