UK law firm Watson Farley and Williams (WFW) has warned shipping lines that the high court ruling that Maran UK had a duty of care for shipyard worker Khalil Mollah who fell to his death while working on the oil tanker 300,000dwt Ekta in 2018.
The implications of the ruling, passed on 13 July by Justice Jay, are twofold according WFW, companies with opaque ownership structures that attempt to avoid liability will not be protected in future. While, given the difficulties around what WFW call...
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