Product Liability in UK Law

  • Murphy v Brentwood District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 26 July 1990
    ... ... premises as a result of a latent defect in those premises, liability in respect of that personal injury would attach to a local authority which ... Stevenson was that the carelessly manufactured -product should be intended to reach the injured consumer in the same state as that ... ...
  • Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 20 June 2002
    ... ... so because, applying the conventional "but for" test of tortious liability, it could not be held that C had proved against A that his mesothelioma ... from the widespread diffusion of chemical products, including product liability cases in which a product which can cause injury is widely ... ...
  • Parsons (H.) (Livestock) Ltd v Uttley Ingham & Company Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 May 1977
    ... ... consumer can either sue the retailer in contract and pass the liability up the chain to the manufacturer: or he can sue the manufacturer in tort ... in contract with that in tort where, as, for instance, in some product liability cases, there arises the danger of differing awards, the lesser ... ...
  • D & F Estates Ltd v Church Commissioners for England
    • House of Lords
    • 14 July 1988
    ... ... 4 When he turned to consider the liability of Wates, the judge, in a key passage, said: "I have to decide ... any case where complaint was made by an ultimate consumer that a product made by some persons with whom he himself had no contract was defective, ... ...
  • Berger v Eli Lilly & Company
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 August 1992
    ... ... the seventh defendant, the Licensing Authority, withdrew the product licence during the first week in August 1982. The drug was withdrawn by ... 9 Products liability claims ... 10 In the field of product liability litigation ... ...
  • R v Lambert
    • House of Lords
    • 05 July 2001
    ... ... charged, for the prosecution to prove that some substance or product involved in the alleged offence was the controlled drug which the ... Strict liability follows, subject to the defences which are provided for by the statute ... ...
  • M'Alister or Donoghue (Pauper) v Stevenson
    • House of Lords
    • 26 May 1932
    ... ... of such ordinary care or skill whereby injury happens a legal liability arises to be enforced by an action for negligence. This includes the case ... can readily conceive that where a manufacturer has parted with his product and it has passed into other hands it may well be exposed to vicissitudes ... ...
  • Junior Books Ltd v Veitchi Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 July 1982
    ... ... , that the effect of relaxing strict limitations upon the area of liability for delict (tort) would be, in the words of Cardozo J. to introduce ... A manufacturer's duty to take care not to make a product that is dangerous sets a standard which is, in principle, easy to ... ...
  • Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 May 1963
    ... ... "This case raised certain interesting questions of law as to the liability of bankers giving references as to the credit-worthiness of their ... As a problem it is a by-product of the doctrine of consideration. If the Respondents had made a nominal ... ...
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
    • House of Lords
    • 16 May 2002
    ... ... The trial of the action was split between issues relating to liability and those relating to damages. Certain issues relating to liability were ... not a substantial or proximate cause, or because the loss was the product of an intervening cause. The defendant's responsibility may be excluded ... ...
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