Liability for Independent Contractors

Abstract

This was the subject of lively debate throughout the 1960s. A reform propagated by the British shipowners at the Stockholm Conference of the C.M.I. of 1963¹ has yet to receive diplomatic approval. Opposition has come largely from the Continent where the matter has received much less attention than in Anglo-Saxon countries. The debate came to life with the decision of the House of Lords in Riverstone Meat Co. Pty. v. Lancashire Shipping Co.² known as The Muncaster Castle.