Contributory Negligence in UK Law
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Froom v Butcher
... ... that, if a person does not wear i seat belt, he is guilty of contributory negligence and his damages ought to be reduced. The other half think that ... ...
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Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
... ... leave to amend the defence to raise an alternative plea of contributory negligence. On the assumption that the death had been caused partly by the ... ...
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Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation and Others
... ... "fault" within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 and that its damages should therefore be reduced to ... ...
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Staveley Iron and Chemical Company Ltd v Jones
... ... (2) If so, was the Respondent guilty of contributory negligence? ... 3 I have had the advantage of ... ...
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Stapley v Gypsum Mines Ltd
... ... It is true, the Appellant admitted, that contributory negligence was a defence in part to such a claim, and it was conceded that ... ...
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Forsikringsaktieselskapet Vesta v Butcher
... ... (iv) That Vesta were guilty of contributory negligence in that Mr. Kolbeinson should have remembered that he had had ... ...
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Calvert v William Hill Credit Ltd
... ... betting with them would not have been sustained but for their negligence. Mr Browne-Wilkinson QC, for Mr Calvert, says that this finding should ... question of quantum did not arise, nor did the question of contributory negligence. But the judge said briefly that, if he had found in Mr ... ...
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Nettleship v Weston
... ... 5 Mr. Nettleship now claims damages for negligence against Mrs. Weston. She denies negligence, alleges contributory ... ...
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Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw
... ... The accident happened before the passing of the Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act, 1945, and the main defence was contributory negligence ... ...
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Banque Financiere de la Cite S.A. (formerly Banque Keyser Ullmann S.A.) v Westgate Insurance Company Ltd (formerly Hodge General & Mercantile Company Ltd); Banque Keyser Ullmann S.A. v Skandia (U.K.) Insurance Company Ltd
... ... Dungate or his employers. The liability was held to arise in negligence at common law and on the further ground that Hodge and Skandia were in ... this constituted one of the grounds of the allegation of contributory negligence on the part of Chemical Bank and American Fletcher ... ...
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