Assumption of Responsibility in UK Law

  • Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Febrero 1990
    ... ... gave a favourable reference, albeit with a disclaimer of responsibility. The circumstances of the inquiry made it clear to the bankers that the ... of care in relation to negligent statements from a voluntary assumption of responsibility on the part of the maker of the statements. In his ... ...
  • Commissioners of Customs and Excise v Barclays Bank Plc
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Junio 2006
    ... ... The first is whether the defendant assumed responsibility for what he said and did vis-à-vis the claimant, or is to be treated by ... " Mr Brindle QC for the Bank contended that the assumption of responsibility test was most appropriately applied to this case, and ... ...
  • Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police
    • Supreme Court
    • 08 Febrero 2018
    ... ... core functions, and cases where police officers had assumed responsibility for a claimant. The present case did not fall into any of those ... conduct, in the absence of any special circumstances such as an assumption of responsibility towards the claimant. It added to the confusion by ... ...
  • ARBUTHNOTT and Others v FAGAN and FELTRIM UNDERWRITING AGENCIES Ltd and Others and Two Other Actions (1st Appeal) ARBUTHNOTT and Others v FAGAN and FELTRIM UNDERWRITING AGENCIES Ltd and Others and Two
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Julio 1994
    ... ... the resolution of which depends the nature of the legal responsibility which rested upon underwriting agents towards the Names for whom they ... 972 are 'equivalent to contract,' that is, where there is an assumption of responsibility in circumstances in which, but for the absence of ... ...
  • Williams and Another v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Abril 1998
    ... ... The cause of action was based on an assumption of responsibility by the company. In 1992 the company was wound up and in ... ...
  • White and Another v Jones and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 16 Febrero 1995
    ... ... financial loss; and as a general rule, apart from cases of assumption of responsibility arising under the principle in Hedley Byrne & Co. Ltd ... ...
  • Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 Julio 1988
    ... ... cases, and increasingly, reference is made to the voluntary assumption of responsibility: Muirehead v. Industrial Tank Specialies Ltd ... [1986] ... ...
  • Smith v Eric S Bush
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Abril 1989
    ... ... advance, if any, may be made on the security and that no responsibility whatsoever is implied or accepted by the council for the value or ... … are ‘equivalent to contract,’ that is, where there is an assumption of responsibility in circumstances in which, but for the absence of ... ...
  • Phelps v London Borough of Hillingdon
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Julio 2000
    ... ... be a claim for economic loss provided that there had been an assumption of responsibility to prevent Pamela from sustaining the type of loss or ... ...
  • Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Noviembre 2002
    ... ... and equitable having regard to the claimant's share in the responsibility for the damage …" 4. 85'fault' means negligence, breach of ... have known, did not comply with the terms of the credit, on the assumption that it could successfully conceal these matters from Incombank. In ... ...
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