Tort of Negligence in UK Law
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Doreen Ann Letang (Respondent) Frank Anthony Cooper (Appellant)
... ... Mr Cooper for damages for loss and injury caused by (1) the negligence of the Defendant in driving a motor-car and (2) the commission by the ... , the period of limitation was six years in all actions founded "on tort"; but in 1954 Parliament reduced it to three years in actions for damages ... ...
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Caparo Industries Plc v Dickman
... ... shares or by purchasing additional shares, was entitled to recover in tort. From that decision the appellants now appeal to your Lordships' House ... of duty situations, all falling within the ambit of the tort of negligence, but sufficiently distinct to require separate definition of the essential ... ...
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Murphy v Brentwood District Council
... ... Lewis held that the council were liable to the plaintiff in negligence under the principle of Anns v. Merton London Borough Council ... He further ... the builder of defective foundations had been under no liability in tort, the local authority could have been under no liability for not taking ... ...
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Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
... ... The plaintiffs' essential claim was for damages for the tort of misfeasance in public office ... On 19 July 1995 the Judge directed ... In this sense the tort is sharply different from the torts of negligence or breach of statutory duty. (6) For the purpose of the ... ...
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Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
... ... The first is based on the tort of misfeasance in public office. The plaintiffs allege that named senior ... of the reasons justifying the non-actionability of a claim in negligence where there is an act of maladministration: Calveley v. Chief Constable ... ...
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Chester v Afshar
... ... appeal is whether the conventional approach to causation in negligence actions should be varied where the claim is based on a doctor's negligent ... provide a comprehensive or exclusive test of causation in the law of tort. Sometimes, if rarely, it yields too restrictive an answer, as in ... ...
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White and Another v Jones and Another
... ... Jones in tort. If the intended effect of the contract between Mr. Jones and the testator ... Jones's deliberate act or his negligence the plaintiffs had failed to obtain the benefit, the plaintiffs would have ... ...
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Hedley Byrne & Company Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
... ... Heller was guilty of negligence in giving such a reference without making plain—as he did not—that it ... 209 that he was precluded from awarding damages in tort for a negligent valuation made by a firm of valuers which knew it was to ... ...
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Parker-Tweedale v Dunbar Bank Plc
... ... and the surety, if there is one, to be expressed in terms of the tort of negligence. The authorities which were considered in the careful ... ...
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Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
... ... Their claim was framed in nuisance and in negligence, though their claim in negligence has since been abandoned ... 482) that the essence of nuisance was that "it was a tort to land. Or to be more accurate it was a tort directed against the ... ...
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