Breach of Duty in UK Law
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Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and Others
... ... periods by both A and B, and (2) A and B were both subject to a duty to take reasonable care or to take all practicable measures to prevent C ... inhaled) might cause a mesothelioma, and (3) both A and B were in breach of that duty in relation to C during the periods of C's employment by each ... ...
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Doreen Ann Letang (Respondent) Frank Anthony Cooper (Appellant)
... ... ) Act, 1954: "Actions for damages for negligence, nuisance or breach of duty (whether the duty exists by virtue of a contract or of a provision ... ...
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Johnson v Gore Wood & Company (A Firm)
... ... Moores£ solicitors alleging breach of warranty of authority. GW continued to act for WWH in those proceedings ... In those proceedings GW admitted that it owed WWH a duty to exercise reasonable care in connection with the exercise of the option, ... ...
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Barber v Somerset County Council
... ... The main judgment contains an analysis of the nature of the legal duty imposed on employers in cases of this kind (paras 19–22), the ... breach of his duty (paras 32–34). This part of the judgment also contains the ... ...
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McGhee v National Coal Board
... ... lacks specification and the evidence is much too vague to prove any breach of duty ... 4 The other ground of fault alleged raises a difficult ... ...
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Bilta (UK) Ltd (in Liquidation) v Nazir
... ... They suggest that it would make a nonsense of the statutory duty contained in section 172(3) of the Companies Act 2006 (and explained by ... the effect of his analysis by reference to a policy-based "breach of duty exception" which covers the present case in order "to avoid, ... ...
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Stone and Rolls Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Moore Stephens (A Firm)
... ... Moore Stephens accept that they owed S&R a duty to exercise reasonable skill and care in carrying out their duties as ... purposes of the present argument they also accept that they were in breach of that duty and that, but for their breach, the fraud that Mr Stojevic ... ...
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Pitt and Another v Holt and Another Futter and Another v Futter and Others
... ... This would lawfully avoid estate duty on her father's death if he lived for a further five years. But the House ... intervene in decisions made by trustees unless they have acted in breach of duty. That can be seen as putting down a marker that Lloyd LJ has since ... ...
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Sienkiewicz v Greif (UK) Ltd; Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willmore
... ... : when a victim contracts mesothelioma each person who has, in breach of duty, been responsible for exposing the victim to a significant ... ...
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Bourhill v Young
... ... on the ground that the cyclist had not been guilty of any breach of duty to the Appellant, and this decision was affirmed by the Second ... ...
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