Back Injury in UK Law

  • Heil v Rankin
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 Junio 2000
    ... ... monetary and non-monetary loss, with particular regard to personal injury litigation". A matter for specific consideration was "the award of damages ... 46% Minor back injury 30% ... ...
  • Jobling v Associated Dairies Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Junio 1981
    ... ... raised by this appeal is whether in assessing damages for personal injury in respect of loss of earnings, account should be taken of a condition of ... appellant slipped at his place of work and sustained injury to his back. The respondents were held liable in damages in respect of this injury. In ... ...
  • White and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Diciembre 1998
    ... ... trace the development of the common law's attitude to psychiatric injury. They show that the common law has regarded claims for psychiatric injury ... 426): "We have come back to the plain common sense stated by Lord Russell of Killowen in Bourhill ... ...
  • Bourhill v Young
    • House of Lords
    • 05 Agosto 1942
    ... ... thereof, the Cause shall be, and the same is hereby, remitted back to the Court of Session in Scotland, or to the Judge acting as Vacation ... did not involve any element of reasonable fear of immediate bodily injury to herself ... The pursuer was about eight months pregnant at the time, and ... ...
  • Godwin v Swindon Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 Octubre 2001
    ... ... He sustained a back injury on the 26 th February 1997, the day after having returned to ... ...
  • Gregg v Scott
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Enero 2005
    ... ... But there are also many cases of serious illness or injury where a patient's existing chances of recovery fall between these ... I shall come back in a moment to what, in this context, was meant by a cure. In the event, ... ...
  • Page v Smith
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Mayo 1995
    ... ... A collision occurred. The plaintiff sustained no bodily injury. Neither did the defendant or his wife and child who were with him in his ... 1) [1961) A.C. 388 , at p.426: "We have come back to the plain common sense stated by Lord Russell of Killowen in ... ...
  • Alcock and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Noviembre 1991
    ... ... in the present case that reasonable foreseeability of the risk of injury to them in the particular form of psychiatric illness was all that was ... If one goes back to what may be regarded as the genesis of the modern law of tortious ... ...
  • Ilkiw v Samuels
    • Court of Appeal
    • 23 Mayo 1963
    ... ... The driver, whose name was Wairnes, was standing on the back of the lorry engaged in stacking the sacks of sugar in the ordinary course ... which the plaintiff was standing, with the result that it caused injury to the plaintiff. Throughout this time Wainea, the regular driver, ... ...
  • Harbutt's ‘Plasticine’Harbutt's Ltd v Wayne Tank and Pump Company Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 Diciembre 1969
    ... ... 27 (1) We will indemnify you against direct damage or injury to your property or persons or that of others caused by thenegligence of ... at page 398. So, in the name of construction, we get back to the principle that, when a company inserts in printed conditions an ... ...
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