Haynes v Harwood

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1935
Year1935
CourtCourt of Appeal
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110 cases
  • Ancell v McDermott
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 Enero 1993
    ...on the duty of police constables generally to guard the public from injury and from damage to or loss of property. Haynes v HarwoodELR ([1935] 1 KB 146), it was said, confirmed the existence of such a duty. The plaintiffs relied also on Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home OfficeELR ([1970] AC 1004),......
  • Baker v T. E. Hopkins & Son Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 24 Julio 1959
    ...imperils life is a wrong to the imperilled victim: it is a wrong also to his rescuer." 12 The decision of this court in the case of Haynes v. Harwood 1935 King's Bench Division 146 shows (1) that there may be circumstances in which if by negligence places in peril ought reasonably to contem......
  • Grant v Robin Hood Enterprises and Grant 1994 Civil Appeal No. 25
    • Bermuda
    • Supreme Court (Bermuda)
    • 28 Octubre 1994
    ...for the 3rd Defendant Morris v National Sports Club 1992 Civil Appeal No. 25 Roles v NathanWLR [1963] 1 WLR 1117 Haynes v HarwoodELR [1935] 1 KB 146 Stokes v GuestWLR [1968] 1 WLR 1776 Bunker v Charles Brand & Son Ltd.ELR [1969] 2 QB 480 Grant v Australian Knitting MillsELR [1936] AC 85 Sea......
  • Mitchell v Mason and Others
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • Invalid date
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Pure Omissions: Rushbond PLC V The J S Design Partnership LLP
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 18 Agosto 2020
    ...that damage may occur, was not enough to find that the Defendant had created the danger. This was not a case like Haynes v Harwood [1935] 1 KB 146, where a carter was held liable after creating a source of danger by leaving his horses unattended on a busy street and they then bolted and inj......
2 books & journal articles
  • Liability for Manslaughter by Omission: Don't Let the Baby Drown!
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-2, April 2010
    • 1 Abril 2010
    ...(2001) 21(3) OJLS393; Smith v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd [1987] 2 AC 241, 271; Stansbie v Troman[1948] 2 KB 48; Haynes v Harwood [1935] 1 KB 146.82 Criminal Law Revision Committee, Offences Against the Person, 14th Report, Cmnd7844 (1980) 108–10.83 G. Lamond, ‘What Is a Crime?’ (2007) 27(......
  • Risk and Remoteness of Damage in Negligence
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 64-2, March 2001
    • 1 Marzo 2001
    ...tomitigate its effects), the courts have generally placed the risk of injury to the rescuer on the defendant,see Haynes vHarwood [1935] 1 KB 146; Baker vTE Hopkins [1959] 1 WLR 966; Ogwo vTaylor[1988] AC 431.89 Indeed it could be argued that the initial harm includes the compromised resista......

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