Defective Premises in UK Law
- Defective Premises — the Empire Strikes Back
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Diverging Common Law —Invercargill goes to the Privy Council
... ... Privy Council Robyn Martin* The issue of liability in tort for defective premises has been very much in the judicial spotlight in recent years. The ... ...
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STATUTES
... ... STATUTES DEFECTIVE PREMISES ACT 1972 THE law relating to the liability of ... ...
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ECONOMIC LOSS IN TORT: IS THE PENDULUM OUT OF CONTROL?
... ... other than the plasterwork itself, which was the defective item. Furthermore, on its facts, the case did not satisfy ... that loss arising from the acquisition of defective premises or chattels will in future be recoverable in tort from ... ...
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Murphy v Brentwood District Council: A House With Firm Foundations?
... ... raft on which the foundations had been built was defective. This raft had been designed by a firm of civil engineers and ... had carelessly approved a defective design and that the premises were now an imminent danger to the health and safety of the ... ...
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Sir Peter North, OCCUPIERS’ LIABILITY
Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com
), 2014. xxxv + 263 pp. ISBN 9780199680641. £80.
... ... duties of builders, and the liabilities of landlords under the Defective Premises Act 1972 ... In the process of preparing this review, the ... ...
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Professional Negligence: Some Further Limiting Factors
... ... They would have suffered economic loss through having a defective chimney upon which they required to expend money for the purpose ... on the defendant, he becomes the owner of defective premises. At first sight, Lord Keith seems to be saying that the ... ...
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Latent Damage—Squaring the Circle?
... ... : the advent of liability in negligence for defective buildings following Dutton v. Bognor Regis U. D. C.3 and Anns ... a local authority for negligent inspection of defective premises accrues when the premises constitute a present or imminent danger ... ...
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Gordon Cameron, James Chalmers, Alasdair Maclean, Francis McManus, Kenneth McK Norrie, Aidan O'Donnell, Brian Pillans, Barry J Rodger, Eleanor Russell, DELICT Edinburgh: W Green & Son Ltd (www.wgreen.co.uk), Scottish Universities Law Institute, 2007. ISBN: 9780414016941. £180.
... ... liability and consumer protection, occupiers’ liability and defective premises, employers’ liability, professional negligence, liability of ... ...
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The residential leaseholder’s interest in construction operations
Purpose: The owner of residential long leasehold can be significantly affected by construction operations to the building, whether during its initial construction or its subsequent repair, renovati...... ... Keywords Defects, Leasehold, Property law, Construction law, Defective premises act 1972,Landlord and tenant act 1985Paper type General ... ...
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