Knee Injury in UK Law

  • South Australian Asset Management Corporation v York Montague Ltd ; United Bank of Kuwait Plc v Prudential Property Services Ltd ; Nykredit Mortgage Bank Plc v Edward Erdman Group Ltd (Formerly Edward Erdman an Unlimited Company)
    • House of Lords
    • 20 June 1996
    ... ... of three well-known cases stating the principle that where an injury is to be compensated by damages, the damages should be as nearly as ... to undertake a difficult climb is concerned about the fitness of his knee. He goes to a doctor who negligently makes a superficial examination and ... ...
  • Chester v Afshar
    • House of Lords
    • 14 October 2004
    ... ... (on such a finding) have acted differently, and her additional injury would be directly attributable to the absence of warning. The same would ... After an hour she had developed some knee extension and flexion and sensation to pain. But there was no real ... ...
  • R v Rahman (Islamur) and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 July 2008
    ... ... was that this wound required severe force and was the principal injury of the deceased, from which he stood no chance of survival. There was ... The punishment was to consist of knee-capping (the firing of a bullet or bullets into a knee or other joint, so ... ...
  • Nettleship v Weston
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 June 1971
    ... ... " against liability at law for damages in respect of bodily injury to any person "including any passenger." On being so assured, Mr ... Hr. Nettleship was injured. His left knee-cap was broken ... 4 On 25th January, 1968, Mrs ... ...
  • Gogay v Hertfordshire CC
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 July 2000
    ... ... December 1997, claiming loss of earnings and damages for personal injury caused by a breach of her contract of employment. It was common ground ... Instead what happened here was an immediate 'knee jerk' reaction. Had Janice Maher had a clearer picture of the limited ... ...
  • Baker v Willoughby
    • House of Lords
    • 26 November 1969
    ... ... on 29th November, 1967, the Appellant had sustained a further injury and the question is whether or to what extent the damages which would ... in his left leg, necessitated an amputation of the left leg above the knee. The consequences of the original accident therefore have ceased. He no ... ...
  • Dobbie v Medway Health Authority
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 May 1994
    ... ... of claim served in October 1990 she claimed damages for personal injury arising from the negligent performance of an operation on 27 April 1973 ... her left leg, resulting in foot drop, following an operation on her knee. Balcombe LJ held (at 332) that the plaintiff's claim was statute-barred ... ...
  • Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary
    • House of Lords
    • 07 June 2001
    ... ... aggravated damages, as the defendant's conduct aggravates the injury done. Sometimes damages may also be measured by reference, not to the ... ?" and the soldier's response was to strike him in the groin with his knee and then to strike him on the head with the butt of his rifle, which ... ...
  • Donovan v Gwentoys Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 22 March 1990
    ... ... and suffered an aggravation to a pre-existing condition in her right knee for which she had previously undergone an operation in August 1979. The ... She claimed industrial injury benefit for the injury to her wrist and the Department of Health and ... ...
  • R (Raissi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 February 2008
    ... ... , by not disclosing any information regarding his previous knee" surgery on “a specified FAA Form” described as a medical certificate \xE2\x80" ... Failure to disclose a knee injury and theft in another jurisdiction. D disclosed the knee injury to other ... ...
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