Strict Liability in UK Law
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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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OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
... ... Inducing breach of contract ... 3 Liability for inducing breach of contract was established by the famous case of ... Liability was alleged to be strict. The cause of action giving rise to this liability was, as to the land and ... ...
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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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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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International Transport Roth GmbH and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... proper travel documents—see the Immigration (Carriers’ Liability) Act 1987, upheld by the Divisional Court in the face of a European ... It provides in short for an absolute or strict liability for which a substantial fixed penalty is payable, the severity ... ...
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Armstrong DLW GmbH v Winnington Networks Ltd
... ... ; a claim for restitution of the EUAs based on unjust enrichment; liability in equity on the basis of knowing receipt of trust property; an equitable ... to an action for conversion and, broadly, liability would be strict; there would be no defence at all available to an innocent purchaser in ... ...
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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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