Negligence in UK Law
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Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society
... ... the present appeals are proceedings brought by two groups of investors against West Bromwich Building Society ("W.B.B.S.") for damages for negligence at common law and under section 2(1) of the Misrepresentation Act 1967. They also claim rescission of their mortgages on the ground of ... ...
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BBGP Managing General Partner Ltd v Babcock & Brown Global Partners
... ... 14.4.2 that General could be removed in like manner without compensation if the termination was in respect of General's “fraud, gross negligence, wilful misconduct, bad faith or reckless disregard of its obligations and duties as general partner”; (k) by clause 16 that an Advisory ... ...
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M'Alister or Donoghue (Pauper) v Stevenson
... ... 6 (1) That the Appellant's case rests solely on the ground of a tort based not on fraud but on negligence; and ... 7 (2) that throughout the appeal the case has been argued on the basis, undisputed by the Second Division and never questioned by counsel ... ...
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Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
... ... Heller was guilty of negligence in giving such a reference without making plain—as he did not—that it was intended to be a very guarded reference, and (2) that properly ... ...
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Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
... ... In this way the law has identified a wide variety of duty situations, all falling within the ambit of the tort of negligence, but sufficiently distinct to require separate definition of the essential ingredients by which the existence of the duty is to be recognised ... ...
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Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
... ... of the tort of misfeasance in public office has been said to be one of the reasons justifying the non-actionability of a claim in negligence where there is an act of maladministration: Calveley v. Chief Constable of the Merseyside Police [1989] A.C. 1228 , at 1238F. It is also ... ...
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Johnson v Gore Wood & Company (A Firm)
... ... On 8 January 1991 WWH started proceedings for professional negligence against GW. In those proceedings GW admitted that it owed WWH a duty to exercise reasonable care in connection with the exercise of the option, but ... ...
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Anns v Merton London Borough Council
... ... As against the council the claims were for damages for negligence by their servants or agents in approving the foundations upon which the block was erected even though (sic) they had not been taken down to a ... ...
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M and Another v London Borough of Newham and Others; X and Others v Bedfordshire County Council
... ... it is now thoroughly well established that no action will lie for doing that which the legislature has authorised, if it be done without negligence, although it does occasion damage to anyone: but an action does lie for doing that which the legislature has authorised, if it be done negligently.' ... ...
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Reckitt and Colman Products Ltd (t/a Colmans of Norwich) v Borden Inc. and Others
... ... , 1882, alleging that the cheques were crossed cheques and that they had received payment of them for a customer in good faith and without negligence. As to two of the cheques they also said that they were holders in due course. Mr. Justice Rowlatt decided in favour of the bank on the issue of ... ...
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