Voluntary Assumption of Risk in UK Law
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Common Employment
... ... a surprising light on the assumption underlying President Roosevelt’s recent ... does not by implication assume any risk due to want of care on the part of ... doctrine is said to rest on the voluntary assumption by one servant of the risk of ... ...
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Common Employment: Reflections on Two Recent Cases
... ... of duty provided “the risk of injury from the negligence of ... , namely the theory of the voluntary assumption of risk by the servant, on ... ...
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Safeguarding and personalisation
This article examines the existing legal framework for safeguarding in the context of the Putting People First (Ministers et al, 2007) agenda, in order to consider the risks of abuse in a new era o...... ... , legal framework, personalisation, risk" management, direct payments, health and safety, \xEF\xAC" ... has to be a duty of care, based on a voluntary assumption of risk, and proximity between the two ... ...
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Extended Joint Criminal Enterprise in International Criminal Law
This article examines the doctrine of extended joint criminal enterprise (‘JCE’) as a mode of liability within international criminal law (‘ICL’). The article first provides an overview of extended...... ... willingly took the risk ... on ‘foreseeability’ and the ‘voluntary assumption of risk,’70 art. 30 prima ... ...
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THE OCCUPIERS’ LIABILITY ACT
... ... ” l8 The common law defence of voluntary assumption of risk is, however, expressly ... ...
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A SCALE OF VALUES IN THE COMMON LAW
... ... in law.% Again, an act or a risk voluntarily suffered or accepted is ... : a fully human, that is, a voluntary act. Where it is necessary to show that ... doctrine of volenti or voluntary assumption of risk “does not apply where the ... ...
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NOTES OF CASES
... ... ” This, of course, is on the assumption that the initial act of depar- ture ... the time it wan solernnised, a voluntary union of one man and one woman to the ... the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950; see Risk v. Risk [lo613 P. 60. [1946] 1 All E.R ... ...
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THE PEARSON REPORT: ITS “STRATEGY”
... ... , contributory negligence and voluntary assumption of risk. For trafflc ... ...
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: Holmes‐Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski Governmental Liability. A Comparative Study. By H. Street, LL.M., PH.D. Administrat...... ... duty, contributory negligence, voluntary assumption of risk, and damages ... ...
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: The Quest of Justice. By Harold Potter LL.D. Trade Union Law. By Norman Arthur Citrine LL.B.(Lond.), Solicitor of the Supreme Court. Modern Constitutions. By K. C. Wh...... ... This assumption, as the learned autlior‘liimself is ... restricted if the doctrine of voluntary assumption of risk is not kept within ... ...
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