sentences:  This case had facts on all fours with the earlier House of Lords' case, "Scruttons Ltd v Midland Silicones Ltd", where their lordships held that the Doctrine of Privity prevented the stevedore from relying on a limitation of liability clause in a bill of lading.However, in that case Lord Reid proposed that in future such stevedores might be covered under the contractual clause through agency provided certain pre-conditions were satisfied