Egg Shell Skull in UK Law

  • Page v Smith
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Maio 1995
    ... ... not concerned to investigate the applicability of the 'thin skull' cases to this type of case." ... 17 I turn ... he finds her and there is no difference in principle between an egg-shell skull and an egg-shell personality: Love v. Port of London Authority ... ...
  • OPO (by his litigation friend) and another v Rhodes
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 Maio 2015
    ... ... is distress, and sheer, unpolluted energy where there is a hollow shell of brokenness and fatigue". He wants to communicate some of what music can ... A loose analogy may be drawn with the "egg shell skull" doctrine, which has an established place in the law of tort. This ... ...
  • Williams v The Bermuda Hospitals Board (Bermuda)
    • Privy Council
    • 25 Janeiro 2016
    ... ... no more assisted the hospital's case than if she had an egg shell skull ... 48 Finally, reference was made ... ...
  • Representative Claimants v Mgn Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 Dezembro 2015
    ... ... Mr Nicklin accepted that, in relation to distress, the "egg-shell skull" principle applied, though I should add that I do not think that any ... ...
  • F & C Alternative Investments (Holdings) Ltd v Barthelemy and another (No 3)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Junho 2012
    ... ... not to be decided by some kind of automatic application of an egg shell skull rule. Indeed, in his written submissions Mr Thompson fairly accepted ... ...
  • Rahman v Arearose Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 Junho 2000
    ... ... on behalf of the first defendants… that this is effectively an egg shell skull type of case where the second defendant must take their victim as ... ...
  • BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd v Konczak
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 Julho 2017
    ... ... But a defendant must take the claimant as he finds him, eggshell skull or vulnerable personality included. So having a vulnerable personality ... ...
  • Essa v Laing Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Janeiro 2004
    ... ... go on, rightly, to consider the possible application of the eggshell skull principle, questions of causation, intervening act and mitigation but the ... manner, or that the victim is peculiarly susceptible to it (the "egg-shell skull" rule) : see Smith v. Leech Brain [1962] 2 QB 405 , Hughes Lord ... ...
  • Anufrijeva v Southwark London Borough Council; R (N) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (M) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 Outubro 2003
    ... ... He submitted that the 'egg-shell skull principle', whereby a defendant must take his victim as he finds ... ...
  • Solicitors Regulation Authority v Sovani Ramona James
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 13 Novembro 2018
    ... ... This Respondent had an egg-shell skull personality at the time of these events. The impact of letters such ... ...
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