de Minimis in UK Law
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Sienkiewicz v Greif (UK) Ltd; Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willmore
... ... the word "material" is intended to exclude an increase of risk that is so insignificant that the court will properly disregard it on the de minimis principle. Mr Stuart-Smith submitted that there should be a test of what is de minimis, or immaterial, which can be applied in all cases. Exposure ... ...
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Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and Others
... ... 621). He considered that any contribution which was not de minimis must be material. The evidence showed that even if more dust came from the pneumatic hammer than from the swing grinders, there was enough dust from ... ...
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Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw
... ... What is a material contribution must be a question of degree. A contribution which comes within the exception de minimis non curat lex is not material, but I think that any contribution which does not fall within that exception must be material. I do not see how there ... ...
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Sea Shepherd UK v Fish & Fish Ltd
... ... The court held that it was sufficient that the appellant did something more than de minimis in support of the common design, and that it was not necessary that what the appellant did should have been of any real significance to the ... ...
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Cartledge v E. Jopling & Sons Ltd
... ... A contribution which comes within the exception de minimis no curat lex is not material, but I think that any contribution which does not fall within that exception must be material. I do not see how there ... ...
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McGhee v National Coal Board
... ... event have inhaled and those which he inhaled but need not have, I cannot regard the excess as something so negligible that the maxim ' de minimis ' is applicable." ... 32 See also Lord Kilbrandon, Lord Ordinary, in Gardiner v. Motherwell Machinery & Scrap Co. 1961 ... ...
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Barker v Corus (UK) Ltd; Murray v British Shipbuilders (Hydrodynamics) Ltd; Patterson v Smiths Dock Ltd and Others
... ... What is a material contribution must be a question of degree. A contribution which comes within the exception de minimis non curat lex is not material, but I think that any contribution which does not fall within that exception must be material. I do not see how there ... ...
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R v Monopolies and Mergers Commission and Another ex parte South Yorkshire Transport Ltd and Others
... ... jurisdiction the learned judge found that it had misdirected itself by adopting the interpretation of substantial as meaning "more than de minimis" which he had himself rejected. He went on to hold that if the commission had applied the approach which he considered right the answer would ... ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2); Kenyon-Brown v Desmond Banks & Company (Undue Influence) (No 2); Bank of Scotland v Bennett; UCB Home Loans Corporation Ltd v Moore; National Westminster Bank Plc v Gill; Midland Bank Plc v Wallace; Barclays Bank Plc v Harris; Barclays Bank Plc v Coleman
... ... But that did not mean that it had to be large or even medium-sized. Provided it was clear and obvious and more than de minimis, the disadvantage might be small. In deciding whether a transaction was manifestly disadvantageous an objective view had to be taken of it and ... ...
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Berkeley v Secretary of State for the Environment Transport and the Regions and Another
... ... In the Community context, unless a violation is so negligible as to be truly de minimis and the prescribed procedure has in all essentials been followed, the discretion (if any exists) is narrower still: the duty laid on member states by ... ...
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