Concurrent Wrongdoers in UK Law
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Jameson and Another v Central Electricity Generating Board
... ... , the starting point is to distinguish between joint torts and concurrent torts. It is agreed between the parties that we are here concerned with ... in that case that the claim is extinguished against all the wrongdoers once the damages have been satisfied in an action against any one of them, ... ...
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Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
... ... the factual conclusions of the Court of Appeal, substantially concurrent as they are with those of the judge ... 57 It follows that KAC's ... In this type of case, involving multiple wrongdoers, the court may treat wrongful conduct as having sufficient causal ... ...
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Royal Brompton Hospital NHS Trust v Hammond (No. 3)
... ... recognised as a weakness, for section 6(1)(c) did not apply to wrongdoers other than tortfeasors and did not apply if only one of the wrongdoers was ... for the liability in damages to be distributed between joint or concurrent tortfeasors. Section 6(2) of that Act went one step further, as it enabled ... ...
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Heaton v AXA Equity & Law Life Assurance Society Plc
... ... Lord, the second matter is whether Jameson principles apply to concurrent co-obligants in contract. In our submission this question is left open by ... in relation to the publication of reports) in which the alleged wrongdoers can be said to be concurrent tortfeasors. Rather, the alleged wrongdoers ... ...
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Heaton v AXA Equity & Law Life Assurance Society Plc
... ... that rule applies to successive contract-breakers as well as concurrent tortfeasors ... 2 The facts giving rise to these issues have ... in this way and attributed to separate and non-contemporaneous wrongdoers raise significantly different issues from cases, such as Balfour, where ... ...
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Paragon Finance Plc v DB Thakerar & Company
... ... equitable jurisdiction which the Plaintiffs invoke is thus the concurrent jurisdiction. The new claims are not different causes of action (which is ... are in reality neither trustees nor fiduciaries, but merely wrongdoers. (2) The Law Reform Committee was concerned with a different ... ...
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Smith New Court Securities Ltd v Scrimgeour Vickers (Asset Management) Ltd and Another
... ... the arguments of counsel for the cross-appellant challenged concurrent findings of fact of the trial judge and the Court of Appeal ... 38 By ... that logical symmetry and a policy of not punishing intentional wrongdoers by civil remedies favour a uniform rule. On the other hand, it is a ... ...
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Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and Others
... ... skull, and (in the case of multiple torts) the concept of concurrent tortfeasors are all no more and no less than tools or mechanisms which the ... not complicated by the existence of additional or alternative wrongdoers ... 22 In Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority a problem of ... ...
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Barker v Corus (UK) Ltd; Murray v British Shipbuilders (Hydrodynamics) Ltd; Patterson v Smiths Dock Ltd and Others
... ... This, he said, was: "a case of concurrent joint tortfeasors, where the actions of either would be sufficient by ... whose disease had been caused by one or other of a number of wrongdoers (in the sense of persons shown to have been in breach of duty) each of ... ...
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Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd v Salaam
... ... If an employee was one of two wrongdoers equally to blame, his 'innocent" employer could look to the other, ... Dishonest receipt gives rise to concurrent liability, since the claim can be based on the defendant's dishonesty, ... ...
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