Fatal Accident in UK Law
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Cookson v Knowles
... ... there falls the task of assessing damages in cases brought under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976. These complement some earlier guide lines for the ... kinds of loss and injury sustained in personal injury and fatal accident cases. Such an analysis was undertaken by the Court of Appeal in Jefford ... ...
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Pickett v British Rail Engineering Ltd
... ... (4) The Fatal Accidents Acts under which proceedings may be brought for the benefit of ... in this appeal, since there is before us no claim under the Fatal Accident Acts. I think, therefore, that we must for present purposes act upon the ... ...
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Allen v Jambo Holdings Ltd
... ... He went first and the others followed after. It was then the accident happened.Mr. Allen's head became caught in the propeller. He was killed ... this is the first case we have had of a personal injury - this is a fatal accident case - where a Mareva injunction has been sought. The nearest ... ...
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Cookson v Knowles
... ... 2On 14th December 1973, Frank Cookson was killed in a motor accident. It was in Chapel Hill, Longridge, Lancashire. He was a passenger in a car ... 3His widow claimed damages under the Fatal Accidents Acts for herself and her three children. Her husband was aged 49 ... ...
- Appendices To The Rosepark Nursing Home Fatal Accident Inquiry
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Hodgson and Others v Trapp and Another
... ... respondent plaintiff sustained catastrophic injuries in a road accident for which the appellant defendants admit liability. At the time of the ... 556 ... He was there concerned with a claim under the Fatal Accidents Act and, in particular, with the extent to which future ... ...
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Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries (No. 2)
... ... ) Act, 1934, be taken into account in assessing damages under the Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846 to 1908, in the case of dependants who will benefit ... In these actions the plaintiffs attributed the accident to breach of statutory duty and negligence on the part of the Respondents ... ...
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Ashley v Chief Constable of Sussex Police
... ... his claim, commenced on 5 January 2000, he seeks damages under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 as a dependent of the deceased but also seeks damages ... The only legitimate purpose for which Fatal Accident Act damages can be claimed and awarded for this tort is, in my opinion, ... ...
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Wright v British Railways Board
... ... justify the selection of this date rather than the date of the accident in the general run of personal injury cases. Since this guide-line has not ... In Cookson v. Knowles [1977] 1 Q.B. 913, 921 , which was a fatal accident case involving only economic loss, Lord Denning M.R. giving the ... ...
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Murphy v Stone-Wallwork (Charlton) Ltd
... ... ' foundry for nearly twelve years and was 54 years of age when an accident occurred, in March, 1965, which strained and injured his back. This ... James [1963] 2 All E.R. 619 the Court of Appeal in a fatal accident case allowed the defendants to adduce evidence of the plaintiff ... ...
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