{"id":20518,"date":"2020-07-14T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T05:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/14\/high-court-backs-negligence-claim-of-bangladeshi-ship-breakers-widow"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T05:30:41","slug":"high-court-backs-negligence-claim-of-bangladeshi-ship-breakers-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20518","title":{"rendered":"High court backs negligence claim of Bangladeshi ship-breaker\u2019s widow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling may persuade shipping companies that scrapping vessels in the dangerous, unregulated yards of south Asia is a false economy<\/p>\n<p>A widow whose husband fell eight storeys to his death while breaking up a supertanker in Bangladesh can pursue a negligence claim against Maran (UK), a British company involved in the ship\u2019s sale, according to a high court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The judge in London ruled shipping firm Maran (UK) Ltd arguably had a duty of care towards Mohammed Kalil Mollah, 32, who died working on the Ekta, a 300,000-tonne vessel, that was being scrapped at a yard in Chittagong, now Chattogram, Bangladesh. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jan\/31\/khalid-mollah-life-was-typical-the-deadly-ship-graveyards-of-bangladesh\">Guardian wrote about Mollah\u2019s death<\/a> earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/14\/high-court-backs-negligence-claim-of-bangladeshi-ship-breakers-widow\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling may persuade shipping companies that scrapping vessels in the dangerous, unregulated yards of south Asia is a false economyA widow whose husband fell eight storeys to his death while breaking up a supertanker in Bangladesh can pursue a negligenc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,847,59,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-employment","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20519,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518\/revisions\/20519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}