Admiralty Commissioners (The Radstock) v Owners of the SS Volute

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date15 December 1921
Date15 December 1921
CourtHouse of Lords
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    ...has often been said in the context of contributory negligence that the courts should adopt a broad common sense approach. In Admiralty Commissioners v SS Volute [1922] 1 AC 129, 144 (a pre-1945 Act case), Lord Birkenhead LC said that “the question of contributory negligence must be dealt wi......
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