Assumption of Responsibility in UK Law
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Assumption of Responsibility in Corporate Groups: Chandler v Cape plc
In Chandler v Cape plc, the Court of Appeal imposed for the first time liability on a company for a breach of its duty of care to an employee of its subsidiary. In doing so, the court laid out a ne...
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A Reappraisal of Solicitors’ Liabilities to Opposing Parties and the (Further) Retreat from Caparo – Steel and Another v NRAM Ltd
... ... to opposing parties, Steel also affirms the primacy of the “assumption of responsibility” principle, signifying the abandonment of the ... ...
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Directors’‘Tortious’ Liability: Contract, Tort or Company Law?
... ... incurs no liability unless and until he assumes personal responsibility. In Williams v Natural Life Health Foods Ltd the Court of Appeal 2 also ... in holding that the liability of directors under the developing assumption of responsibility tort does not present a special case and that the tort ... ...
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Brian Coote, CONTRACT AS ASSUMPTION Oxford: Hart Publishing (www.hartpub.co.uk), 2010. xxviii + 217 pp. ISBN 9781849460293. £29.99.
... ... interest (ch 8); transferred loss claims and the performance interest (ch 9); third party rights (ch 10); and assumption of responsibility and pure economic loss in New Zealand (ch 11), a jurisdiction with which Coote is well familiar, being an emeritus professor of law at the University ... ...
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Reparation and Child Protection: Clarity and Consistency: HXA v Surrey CC
... ... particular, a duty would arise should the defender assume responsibility. Poole appeared to set out the law in the clearest of terms but, somewhat ... with the claimants that could be interpreted as amounting to assumption of responsibility”.5 In HXA a number of “particular decisions” by ... ...
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Chapter 6: Directors’ and Officers’ Liability to Third Parties
... ... will be recognised only if there has been a “voluntary assumption of responsibility” ... 3 ... ...
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Chapter 4: Misrepresentation
... ... the circumstances the speaker or writer has undertaken some responsibility"”; “if A assumes a responsibility to B to tender him deliberate advice\xE2\x80" ... is “‘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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Liability for References: The House of Lords and Spring v Guardian Assurance
... ... & Co v Heller & Partners Ltd5 and the 'voluntary assumption of responsibility' as the source of the duty of care. Indeed, ... ...
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Poole Borough Council v GN, and the Piecemeal Dismantling of Local Authorities' Immunity
... ... to investigate and take appropriate measures constituted an assumption of responsibility, which was breached by a failure to take appropriate ... ...
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Pure Economic Loss in Negligence: Has England got it wrong? Does Australia have it right?
The exclusionary rule regarding recovery for pure economic loss in negligence in England has been the subject of academic debate for a long time. The law of negligence in England has developed in s...... ... the defendant either expressly or implicitly undertakes responsibility to the claimant for advice or information but also where the relationship ... 86 He stated that „assumption of responsibility‟ was not always a condition necessary to give rise to ... ...
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