Law of Wrongdoing in UK Law
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M'Alister or Donoghue (Pauper) v Stevenson
... ... you style it such or treat it as in other systems as a species of "culpa," is no doubt based upon a general public sentiment of moral wrongdoing for which the offender must pay. But acts or omissions which any moral code would censure cannot in a practical world be treated so as to give a ... ...
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Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
... ... This is an intentional tort. It involves deliberate or reckless wrongdoing. It cannot be committed negligently or inadvertently. Accordingly it is not enough for the depositors to establish negligence, or even gross ... ...
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Dorset Yacht Company Ltd v Home Office
... ... 15 These cases shew that, where human action forms one of the links between the original wrongdoing of the defendant and the loss suffered by the plaintiff, that action must at least have been something very likely to happen if it is not to be ... ...
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Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
... ... Wright had he sought to publish his book in England. The sporadic and low key prior publication of certain specific allegations of wrongdoing could not conceivably weigh in favour of allowing publication of this whole book of detailed memoirs describing the operations of the security ... ...
- Lonrho Ltd and Others v Shell Petroleum Company Ltd and Others (First Appeal)
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Associated Newspapers Ltd v His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
... ... Initially this was limited to the so called 'iniquity rule'; confidentiality could not be relied upon to conceal wrongdoing. In Lion Laboratories v Evans [1985] 1 QB 826 a more general test of public interest was upheld. Employees, in breach of confidence and copyright ... ...
- Cartledge v E. Jopling & Sons Ltd
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Lister and Others v Hesley Hall Ltd
... ... But it is necessary to face up to the way in which the law of vicarious liability sometimes may embrace intentional wrongdoing by an employee. If one mechanically applies Salmond's test, the result might at first glance be thought to be that a bank is not liable to a customer ... ...
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Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd v Salaam
... ... claimed it satisfied this prerequisite because, pursuant to section 10 of the Partnership Act 1890, it was liable for Mr Amhurst's alleged wrongdoing. Thus, so it claimed, the case falls squarely within the scope of section 1(1) of the Contribution Act ... 8 This was denied by Mr Al Tajir ... ...
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Crofter Hand Woven Harris Tweed Company v Veitch
... ... at a rival's expense which pure commercial selfishness would justify passes the limit of legal right and enters the field of actionable wrongdoing, if for that purity there is substituted independent malevolence towards others." On the other hand at p. 741 he says, "I incline to agree that the ... ...
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