Assumption of Responsibility in UK Law
- Supreme Court Decision: Assumption Of Responsibility
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Distinguishing between "advice" and "information" when assessing the scope of liability in professional negligence claims: Manchester Building Society v. Grant Thornton
The Court of Appeal has considered the application of the "SAAMCO principle" in deciding the scope of an auditor's liability for negligent accounting advice (Manchester Building Society v. Grant Th...... ... asking an open-ended question as to the extent of a party's assumption of responsibility ... Background ... Manchester Building Society ... ...
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Playboy got played: Supreme Court confirms the limits of Hedley Byrne
The Supreme Court’s recent judgment in Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SPA v. Playboy Club London Limited revisited the landmark judgment in Hedley Byrne v. Heller . The Court’s judgment related to a pa...... ... The Court’s judgment related to a party’s voluntary assumption of responsibility when making a statement or providing information that is ... ...
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Assumption of Direct Responsibility for a Subsidiary's Liabilities – Is the Corporate Limited Liability Veil in Tatters?
In the landmark decision of Chandler v Cape plc (2012) EWCA Civ 525 the Court of Appeal for England and Wales has upheld a High Court decision that a parent company owed a direct duty of care towar...
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Giving professional advice for free – what is my liability?
An architect who provided professional services to her friends, free of charge and without a contract, nevertheless owed a duty of care to exercise reasonable care and skill and was therefore legal...... ... and tort on the basis that Mrs Lejonvarn had assumed responsibility for the provision of professional services while she was acting as an ... The first instance court applied the “assumption of responsibility” test. Under this test,1 a duty of care arises where ... ...
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HXA And YXA In The Supreme Court
... ... Thus it was alleged that the ... council assumed responsibility to protect the claimants, that it ... added to the danger to the ... amounted to an assumption of responsibility. The deputy Master ... rejected that submission and ... ...
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Something Old Something New - The Remoteness Rule
... ... "contract breaker ought fairly to be taken to have accepted responsibility" according to the interpretation of the contract in its commercial ... it will not be necessary specifically to address the issues of assumption of responsibility" ... As considered below, the assumption of ... ...
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