Strict Liability in UK Law
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Transco Plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
... ... Professor Brian Simpson has drawn attention ("Legal Liability for Bursting Reservoirs: The Historical Context of Rylands v Fletcher " ... to water, section 209 of the Water Industry Act 1991 imposes strict liability (subject to certain exemptions) on water undertakers and ... ...
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Cambridge Water Company v Eastern Counties Leather
... ... to which I will return at a later stage, when I come to consider liability on the facts of the present case under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher ... with a natural right incident to ownership then the liability is a strict one. The actor acts at his peril in that if his actions result by the ... ...
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Read v J. Lyons & Company Ltd
... ... on an ultra-hazardous activity and so were under what is called a "strict liability" to take successful care to avoid causing harm to persons ... ...
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Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass
... ... In that case any liability of the company can only be a statutory or vicarious liability ... 16 In ... , as also in the field of public health and safety, offences of "strict liability" for which an employer or principal, in the course of whose ... ...
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Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
... ... The trial of the action was split between issues relating to liability and those relating to damages. Certain issues relating to liability were ... providing a remedy for the misappropriation of goods, liability is strict. As Diplock LJ said in Marfani & Co Ltd v Midland Bank Ltd [1968] 1 ... ...
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Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Trust
... ... His claim was based exclusively on the Trust's vicarious liability for Mrs Freeman's alleged breach of the statutory prohibition of ... 7 Vicarious liability is a common law principle of strict, no-fault liability. Under this principle a blameless employer is liable ... ...
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R v G (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening)
... ... under article 6 of the Convention, because it was an offence of strict liability, and (2) it violated his right to privacy under article 8 ... ...
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Warner v Metropolitan Police Commissioner; R v Warner
... ... distinction to prevent any extension of the doctrine of absolute liability ... 24 I observe the same tendency in the next case Reynolds v. Austin ... as one dealing with a grave social evil and from that to infer that strict liability was intended. It is pertinent also to enquire whether putting ... ...
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R v Governor of Brockhill Prison, ex parte Evans (No. 2)
... ... : the Court of Appeal by a majority allowed her appeal on liability and increased the judge's assessment of damages from £2,000 to £5,000: ... 1043 ... 4 It is accepted that false imprisonment is a tort of strict liability equally clearly deprivation of liberty may be shown to be lawful ... ...
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Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc.
... ... criminal are contrary to public policy and involve criminal liability on the part of secondary parties; and the infringement of statutory rules ... exception to the category of turpitudinous acts for cases of strict liability, generally arising under statute, where the claimant was not ... ...
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