Gross Negligence in UK Law
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Armitage v Nurse
... ... It requires proof of dishonesty. Nothing less will do. Gross and culpable negligence is not enough. This was confirmed in Nocton v ... ...
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Rondel v Worsley
... ... it did not because a barrister cannot be sued by his client for negligence or lack of skill in presenting his client's case in court. I shall not ... adviser or the procurator if there was (what was then called) gross negligence. In 1876 an action was brought both against an advocate and a ... ...
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R v Beedie
... ... requires, if a defendant is guilty of manslaughter because of his gross negligence, that fact should be reflected in the verdict of a jury or by a ... ...
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R v DPP, ex parte Manning and another
... ... Mr Western noted that the coroner had not left gross negligence manslaughter or murder as possible verdicts to the jury, but ... ...
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OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
... ... The example of what Lord Atkin achieved for negligence in Donogue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 always beckons (see Weir at p ... It is not the same as negligence or even gross negligence: in British Industrial Plastics Ltd v Ferguson [1940] 1 All ... ...
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Manifest Shipping Company Ltd v Uni-Polaris Shipping Company Ltd (Star Sea)
... ... was the Cypriot motor vessel Star Sea, built in 1974 and having a gross tonnage 6925 tons. She was a dry cargo vessel having her engine-room and ... This 'turning a blind eye' is far more blameworthy than mere negligence. Negligence in not knowing the truth is not equivalent to knowledge of ... ...
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Van Colle and Another v Chief Constable of the Hertfordshire Police
... ... take preventative measures to avoid that risk must be tantamount to gross negligence or wilful disregard of the duty to protect life. Such a rigid ... ...
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R v G; R v R
... ... ): "(a) 'Maliciously.' Burning a house by any mere negligence, however gross it be, is, as we have seen, no crime; (an omission in our ... ...
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Twinsectra Ltd v Yardley
... ... of subjectivity, as distinct from the objectivity of negligence. Honesty, indeed, does have a strong subjective element in that it is a ... a mortgage fraud was being committed, then in my judgment, however gross the negligence she was not guilty of a dishonest or fraudulent omission ... ...
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Re Sevenoaks Stationers (Retail) Ltd
... ... commercial probity, although I have no doubt in an extreme case of gross negligence or total incompetence disqualification could be appropriate." ... ...
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