Tort Law in UK Law
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Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
... ... This is a detailed and complicated pleading. It runs to 133 pages. In outline there are two alleged causes of action. The first is based on the tort of misfeasance in public office. The plaintiffs allege that named senior officials of the Banking Supervision Department of the Bank, but not two ... ...
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OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
... ... The three appeals ... 1 These three appeals are principally concerned with claims in tort for economic loss caused by intentional acts ... (a) In OBG Ltd v Allan [2005] QB 762 the defendants were receivers ... ...
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Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and Others
... ... The overall object of tort law is to define cases in which the law may justly hold one party liable to compensate another. Are these such cases? A and B owed C a duty to ... ...
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Rookes v Barnard
... ... The Appellant has no remedy against B.O.A.C. They neither broke their contract with him nor committed any tort against him. In this action the Appellant seeks a remedy against two members and an official of the Union on the ground that they wrongfully induced ... ...
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Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
... ... 10 A notable feature of the present proceedings is that this is a claim in tort for damages in respect of events having no connection with this country. The acts of which complaint is made took place in Iraq. Nor do the parties ... ...
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White and Another v Jones and Another
... ... The plaintiffs' case is that precisely the same duty was owed to them by Mr. Jones in tort. If the intended effect of the contract between Mr. Jones and the testator had been that an immediate benefit, provided by Mr. Jones, should be ... ...
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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
... ... members' agents and the managing agents; and that in each case issues would arise whether there was liability on their part in contract, or in tort, or for breach of fiduciary duty. But that is not in fact the case. In the case of the Merrett Appeals, there is no issue before your Lordships ... ...
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VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corpn
... ... VTB's case is that the misrepresentations were fraudulent ... 4 In order to bring proceedings in tort in England against any of the respondents, VTB required permission to effect service on them out of the jurisdiction. Permission was obtained from ... ...
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McFarlane v Tayside Health Board
... ... The claim was brought in contract and in tort. Peter Pain J. found that there was no reason why public policy prevented the recovery of expenses arising from the birth of a healthy child. He ... ...
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HM Revenue and Customs v Total Network SL
... ... 1 The issue in this case is whether the Commissioners can maintain a civil claim for damages under the tort of unlawful means conspiracy against a participant in a missing trader intra-community, or carousel, fraud. Two questions need to be considered. The ... ...
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