Assumption of Responsibility in UK Law
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Commissioners of Customs and Excise v Barclays Bank Plc
... ... 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 ... ...
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Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
... ... 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 ... ...
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White and Another v Jones and Another
... ... financial loss; and as a general rule, apart from cases of assumption of responsibility arising under the principle in Hedley Byrne & Co. Ltd ... ...
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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
... ... 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 ... ...
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Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police
... ... 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 ... ...
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Smith v Eric S Bush
... ... 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 ... ...
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Williams and Another v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd and Another
... ... The cause of action was based on an assumption of responsibility by the company. In 1992 the company was wound up and in ... ...
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P&P Property Ltd v Owen White & Catlin LLP
... ... Beyond this, the judge said that there had been no assumption of responsibility by Ms Lim to P&P in respect of the carrying out of due ... ...
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Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
... ... cases, and increasingly, reference is made to the voluntary assumption of responsibility: Muirehead v. Industrial Tank Specialies Ltd ... [1986] ... ...
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Phelps v London Borough of Hillingdon
... ... 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 ... ...
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