Actionable Torts in UK Law

  • Rookes v Barnard
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Enero 1964
    ... ... done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would ... Pollock wrote in his Law of Torts (8th edition pp. 325-6)—"The present writer confesses to great ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Mayo 2007
    ... ... I propose to start with some general observations on the first three torts. Inducing breach of contract ... 3 Liability ... is a cause of action in all instances where the violation is an actionable wrong, as in violations of a right to property, whether real or personal, ... ...
  • Smith New Court Securities Ltd v Scrimgeour Vickers (Asset Management) Ltd and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Noviembre 1996
    ... ... in respect of the first it has not, been established that an actionable misrepresentation was made by Citibank N.A. (acting through Mr. Roberts) ... purpose for tort of intention, the compensatory purpose for other torts." ... 82 And in the battle against fraud civil ... ...
  • D. C. Thomson & Company, Ltd v Arthur Deakin and Others
    • Court of Appeal
    • 26 Junio 1952
    ... ... and not to injure the plaintiffs, and is not, therefore, actionable per se ". The learned judge then refers to Sorrell v. Smith ... Such a statement of the matter I take from Pollock's Law of Torts, 14th edition, at page 266, where reference is made to Street's ... ...
  • Sorrell v Smith
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Mayo 1925
    ... ... or intimidation with a man's liberty to trade constitutes an actionable wrong and that this doctrine cannot be qualified by consideration of the ... and giving way to two, it seems to be only a special illustration of torts arising from intimidation. I do not understand the proposition to be that ... ...
  • J. T. Stratford & Son Ltd v Lindley
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Julio 1964
    ... ... 36 Since the Defendants' conduct would be actionable if done by one person acting alone, and is not based on the Quinn v ... ...
  • Hayward v Zurich Insurance Company Plc
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 Julio 2016
    ... ... 's entry into the contract: see for example Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (21st ed) para 18–35. They have not thereby intended to allow in any ... In the 5th ed (2014) of Spencer Bower & Handley on Actionable Misrepresentation at p 122, para 11.07 say this. "A representee ... ...
  • Law Debenture Trust Corporation v Ural Caspian Oil Corporation Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 09 Marzo 1994
    ... ... is a cause of action in all instances where the violation is an actionable wrong" ... 21 He then proceeded to set out ... my judgment well summarised by Professor John Fleming in The Law of Torts (8th edn, 1992) at pages 689–90 , where he writes : ... ...
  • Generale Bank Nederland NV (formerly Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland NV) v Export Credits Guarantee Department
    • House of Lords
    • 18 Febrero 1999
    ... ... suit "for the frauds, deceits, concealments, misrepresentations, torts, negligences, and other malfeasances or misfeasances, and omissions of ... conduct for which the servant is responsible must constitute an actionable tort and to make the employer responsible for that tort the conduct ... ...
  • J. T. Stratford & Son Ltd v Lindley
    • Court of Appeal
    • 25 Marzo 1964
    ... ... in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract ... So they have relied on the torts of conspiracy, intimidation and inducing breaches of contract (other than ... ...
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