Wilful Misconduct in UK Law

  • Ethiopian Law of International Carriage by Air: An Overview
    • No. 5-2, July 2011
    • Mizan Law Review
    • Hailegabriel G. Feyissa
    • Lecturer in Law (Bahir Dar University) and Attorney at Law (ANRS); LLB (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia)
    • 215-245
    Ethiopia’s aviation history goes back to the late 1920s. And, carriage of goods and passengers by air dates at least as far back as the 1940s - the decade which witnessed the establishment of Ethio...
    ... ... limitation of carrier’s liability and the concept of “wilful misconduct”. It doubled the limit of liability contained in the ... ...
  • A New Road Traffic Bill
    • No. 6-4, October 1933
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ... ... been guilty not only of negligence, but even of serious and wilful misconduct. If the law with regard to motor-car accidents is ... ...
  • STATUTES
    • No. 25-5, September 1962
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... limit his liability, if the damage is caused by his wilful misconduct or by such default on his part as, in ... ...
  • Douglas Brodie, ENTERPRISE LIABILITY AND THE COMMON LAW Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org), 2010. xi + 190 pp. ISBN 978052176201. £55.
    • No. , January 2012
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 137-138
    ... ... compensating third parties for damage caused by the negligence or wilful misconduct of employees, or compensating employees for harm caused to them ... ...
  • Riding or Driving to the Danger of the Public
    • No. 23-3, July 1950
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ... ... shall, by wanton or furious driving or racing or other wilful misconduct or by wilful neglect, do or cause to be done any bodily harm ... ...
  • The complementarity of audit and judicial review: the ‘homes for votes’ scandal in the UK
    • No. 71-3, September 2005
    • International Review of Administrative Sciences
    The mechanisms of public accountability can take many different forms, and those who hold others to account must themselves be accountable. A recent case of serious ...
    ... ... the elected members of the authority). It is misconduct in a councillor to exercise or be party to the exercise of such powers ... themselves knowingly or recklessly it is regarded by the law as wilful misconduct; Drewry Complementarity of audit and judicial review 377 ... ...
  • Armitage v Nurse & Others
    • No. 5-3, March 1997
    • Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance
    • 272-275
    The Appellant in this case, referred to throughout the Court of Appeal's judgment as ‘Paula’, was the principal beneficiary under a settlement which contained a trustee exemption clause in the foll...
    ... ... matter how indolent, imprudent, lacking in diligence, negligent or wilful he may have been, so long as he has not acted dishonestly.' On the more ... , however gross, on the one hand and fraud, bad faith and wilful misconduct on the other'. COMMENT Given that exclusion clauses of the breadth of the ... ...
  • REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
    • No. 22-6, November 1959
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... where it transpires that there has been collusion or wilful misconduct by an employee. Information received by the ... ...
  • Juries: Scrutiny of Deliberations
    • No. 69-5, October 2005
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... , as in the instant case, the juror ’ s communication alleged wilful misconduct on the part of certain jurors and deliberate disregard of the ... ...
  • Aviation Law in Australia
    • No. 1-2, June 1965
    • Federal Law Review
    ... ... of action, as if the loss or damage had been caused by the wilful act, neglect, or default of the owner of the aircraft: Provided that ... In the event of wilful misconduct the liability of the operator is unlimited. 24 The Convention ... ...
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