Due Diligence in UK Law
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Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass
... ... , an accident or some other cause beyond his control; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such an offence by himself or any person under his control." ... 5 The relevant facts as ... ...
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Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd
... ... act or default by any employee of the Company unless such act or default could have been foreseen and avoided by the exercise of due diligence on the part of the Company as his employer; nor, in any event, shall the Company be held responsible for (a) Any loss suffered by the customer ... ...
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Takhar v Gracefield Developments Ltd and Others
... ... basis that it was obtained by fraud did not have to demonstrate that he could not have discovered the fraud by the exercise of reasonable diligence. The present claim was therefore not an abuse of process ... 18 The respondents appealed. The Court of Appeal (Patten, King and Simon LJJ) ... ...
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Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Ltd v Adamastos Shipping Company Ltd (Saxon Star.)
... ... (1) The carrier shall be bound, before and at the beginning of the voyage, to use due diligence to— ( a ) Make the ship seaworthy; ( b ) Properly man, equip, and supply the ship; ( c ) Make the holds, ... ...
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Medforth v Blake
... ... diligence. The facts pleaded regarding the Receivers' failure to obtain discounts on the price of the pig feed disclose, I would think, a failure to manage the ... ...
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R (Walumba Lumba and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... should not seek to exercise the power of detention; (iv) The Secretary of State should act with reasonable diligence and expedition to effect removal ... 23 Lord Phillips says that the first two of these principles cannot properly be ... ...
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Armitage v Nurse
... ... Clause 15 exempts the trustee from liability for loss or damage to the trust property no matter how indolent, imprudent, lacking in diligence, negligent or wilful he may have been, so long as he has not acted dishonestly ... 27 The permitted scope of trustee exemption clauses ... ...
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Jaroo v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
... ... They could not assert that right indefinitely, as the constitutional guarantee of due process requires that due diligence must be exercised. But so long as these statements remained unchallenged it would not have been open to the court to hold that they were acting ... ...
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Davie v New Merton Board Mills Ltd
... ... or instance of a similar personal obligation, I note that the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924, requires a shipowner to exercise due diligence or to take reasonable care to provide a seaworthy ship. The shipowner is almost certainly not an expert naval architect, engineer, or stevedore. So ... ...
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Rondel v Worsley
... ... It was held that there was such want of skill or diligence as to render the attorney liable to repay to his clients the damages and costs occasioned by his error. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Cottenham) said:— ... ...
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