Property Damage in UK Law

  • Murphy v Brentwood District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Julio 1990
    ... ... 5 That point was when damage to the house had occurred resulting in there being a present or imminent ... far as it affirmed a private law duty of care to avoid damage to property which causes present or imminent danger to the health and safety of ... ...
  • Junior Books Ltd v Veitchi Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Julio 1982
    ... ... not caused danger to the health or safety of any person nor risk of damage to any other property belonging to the owner of the floor, may in the ... ...
  • Blue Circle Industries Plc v Ministry of Defence
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 Junio 1998
    ... ... The property market collapsed in the autumn of 1989 and a decision was taken to let ... in subsection (2) of this section causes injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee, being injury or ... ...
  • Smith v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd; Maloco v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 05 Febrero 1987
    ... ... premises they occupied was not a source of danger to neighbouring property ... 9 The standard of care required of them was that ... I agree that mere foreseeability of damage is certainly not a sufficient basis to found liability. But with this ... ...
  • S.C.M. (United Kingdom) Ltd v W. J. Whittall & Son Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 Julio 1970
    ... ... , such as the Plaintiffs, would be likely to suffer loss and damage, including injury to their property ... 4 ... ...
  • Re Asbestos Insurance Coverage Cases
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Febrero 1985
    ... ... , and who seek compensation for these injuries and in some cases for damage to property. In the co-ordination proceedings the respondents seek ... ...
  • Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Mayo 1963
    ... ... or some situation is created which is dangerous to life, limb or property. In logic I can see no essential reason for distinguishing injury which is ... maintained that they were in no sense negligent and further that no damage flowed from the giving of references but first they took the point that ... ...
  • Dorset Yacht Company Ltd v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Mayo 1970
    ... ... Then they boarded the Respondents' yacht. Much damage was done to this yacht by the collision and some by the subsequent conduct ... and to the occurrence of loss, damage or injury to any person or property. All the escaping trainees had criminal records and five of them had a ... ...
  • R v G; R v R
    • House of Lords
    • 16 Octubre 2003
    ... ... a defendant properly be convicted under section 1 of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 on the basis that he was reckless as to whether property was ... ...
  • D & F Estates Ltd v Church Commissioners for England
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Julio 1988
    ... ... & F. Estates in respect of that damage and by Mr. and Mrs. Tillman in respect of disturbance caused to them while ... only if they constitute a source of danger to the person or property of those who are likely to come on to them or to find themselves in their ... ...
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