Slip and Fall in UK Law

  • Kennedy v Cordia (Services) LLP
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 01 February 2017
    ... ... 5 Cordia were aware of the risk that their home carers might slip and fall on snow and ice when travelling to and from clients' houses in ... ...
  • Mutual Shipping Corporation v Bayshore Shipping Company Ltd (Montan)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 1984
    ... ... conferred on him by section 17 of the Arbitration Act, 1950—the slip rule. Since he did not do so and since the award is now before this court, ... 25 Into which category does Mr. Clark's action fall? Mr. Buckley argued that Mr. Clark intended to make an award in favour of ... ...
  • HIH Casualty and General Insurance Ltd v New Hampshire Insurance Company
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 May 2001
    ... ... Thus, where an insurance contract is to be found in a "slip policy" which looks forward to "policy wording" and that wording emerges ... clause 8 as between HIH and reinsurers on the hypothesis that it did fall to be incorporated into any reinsurance contract. Again, the answer given ... ...
  • Banque Financiere de la Cite S.A. (formerly Banque Keyser Ullmann S.A.) v Westgate Insurance Company Ltd (formerly Hodge General & Mercantile Company Ltd); Banque Keyser Ullmann S.A. v Skandia (U.K.) Insurance Company Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 July 1988
    ... ... that in some respects the principal burden of the argument should fall on Mr. Kentridge and Mr. Strauss, though in the event they had both left ... On 11th December 1979 Mr. Dungate, on behalf of Hodge, signed a slip taking a 25% line. The material provisions of this slip, which with some ... ...
  • SmithKline Beecham Plc v Apotex Europe Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 May 2006
    ... ... we have set out the Canadian companies' claim, inter alia, under the 'slip-rule' and as a matter of estoppel. These claims are made under the ... So he retreated to a fall-back position. This was that even if all the specific documents pleaded ... ...
  • R (Alconbury Developments Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
    • House of Lords
    • 09 May 2001
    ... ... to the west of the existing junction 13, together with connected slip and side roads. In August 1993 following an inquiry, orders were confirmed ... "may, if he thinks fit, direct that an appeal which would otherwise fall to be determined by an appointed person shall instead be determined by the ... ...
  • Wheat v E. Lacon & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 February 1966
    ... ... In the surgeon's opinion if Mr. Wheat had fallen heavily enough, the fall could have been from ground level and he said that the injury was ... thought that this constituted a danger in that a person's hand could slip off the end of the handrail ... 15 Mr. Justice Winn thought that it was ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 May 2007
    ... ... 13 Thus the facts of Allen v Flood did not fall within Lumley v Gye because no breach of contract or other unlawful act ... to Lumley v Gye in support of the second cause of action is a slip - "a rare occurrence in a judgment of Lord Watson's" - because it ... ...
  • Forsikringsaktieselskapet Vesta v Butcher
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 October 1987
    ... ... from the negligent act or omission of the defendants so as not to fall within the famous formula of being the natural and probable consequences ... surprising and improbable" about the conclusion that the Lloyd's slip and the Lloyd's policy were governed by anything other than English law ... ...
  • Leakey v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 1979
    ... ... Its instability, its propensity to slip, which admittedly exists, is caused by nature: the contours, the ... 12 A few weeks later there was a large fall of the bank. Part of the intrusion into the plaintiffs' properties ... ...
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