Pure Economic Loss in UK Law

  • Murphy v Brentwood District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 26 July 1990
    ... ... they were on the evidence, the plaintiff's loss on sale as awarded was substantially less than ... , without discussion) cases about "economic loss" where, a duty having been held to exist, ... loss held to be recoverable in Anns was pure economic loss, the next point for examination is ... ...
  • White and Another v Jones and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 1995
    ... ... acted and in doing so had suffered financial loss. This House held that but for a disclaimer of ... , no action lay in the tort of negligence for pure economic loss. This argument Sir Robert ... ...
  • Commissioners of Customs and Excise v Barclays Bank Plc
    • House of Lords
    • 21 June 2006
    ... ... test of tortious liability in negligence for pure financial loss ... 4 ... whether a defendant sued as causing pure economic loss to a claimant owed him a duty of care in ... ...
  • McFarlane v Tayside Health Board
    • House of Lords
    • 25 November 1999
    ... ... should be given the opportunity to prove the loss, injury and damage which they aver arises ... special damage associated with (a); (c) economic loss being (i) "the financial loss she suffers ... pregnancy and birth excluded as being for pure economic loss? (v) Does ... ...
  • ARBUTHNOTT and Others v FAGAN and FELTRIM UNDERWRITING AGENCIES Ltd and Others and Two Other Actions (1st Appeal) ARBUTHNOTT and Others v FAGAN and FELTRIM UNDERWRITING AGENCIES Ltd and Others and Two
    • House of Lords
    • 25 July 1994
    ... ... participation in the London Market Excess of Loss ("LMX") business, it being alleged that the ... upon managing agents not to cause purely economic loss to Names? ... 25 (b) Does the "absolute ... may arise in negligence in respect of pure economic loss which is not parasitic upon ... ...
  • Junior Books Ltd v Veitchi Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 July 1982
    ... ... by the respondents be liable for the economic loss caused to them by having to replace the ... developed so as to cover the situation where pure economic loss is to be foreseen as likely to be ... ...
  • D & F Estates Ltd v Church Commissioners for England
    • House of Lords
    • 14 July 1988
    ... ... of further remedial work and prospective loss of rent which would be suffered while that ... could recover in tort since it represented pure economic loss. The Court of Appeal rejected this ... ...
  • Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
    • House of Lords
    • 08 February 1990
    ... ... should in fact have been shown as a loss of over £400,000. Had the true facts been known, ... to avoid causing others to suffer purely economic loss. A graphic illustration of the distinction ... [1964] A.C. 465 to cover cases of pure economic loss not resulting from physical damage ... ...
  • M and Another v London Borough of Newham and Others; X and Others v Bedfordshire County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 29 June 1995
    ... ... on a common law cause of action where the loss suffered by the plaintiff is the inevitable ... in cases where the plaintiffs' claim is for pure economic loss and that it does not apply where, ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 May 2007
    ... ... concerned with claims in tort for economic loss caused by intentional acts ... of conversion to impose strict liability for pure economic loss on receivers who were appointed and ... ...
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