Behrens v Bertram Mills Circus Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1957 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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51 cases
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Arul Chandran v Gartshore and Others
...exception of loss of amenities: at [32].] Addis v Gramophone Company, Limited [1909] AC 488 (folld) Behrens v Bertram Mills Circus Ltd [1957] 2 QB 1 (folld) Bliss v South East Thames Regional Health Authority [1987] ICR 700 (refd) Brown v Waterloo Regional Board of Commissioners of Police (......
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Essa v Laing Ltd
...the contrary, it probably reflects the fact that the general rule of the common law, then as well as now, as Devlin J stated in Behrens v. Bertram Mills Circus [1957] 2 QB 1 at 28, is that "mental suffering caused by grief, fear, anguish and the like is not assessable". It is only in certai......
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Mirvahedy v Henley
...is likely to injure any one, but because, if it does, the injury is likely, as a result of its weight and bulk, to be severe: cf Behrens v Bertram Mills Circus [1957] 2 QB 1. This is a statement about its physical capacity to injure and its inability to limit the consequences of that capac......
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Re Holmden's Settlement Trusts
...land, including the House of Lords itself. That proposition is said to rest on Jacobs v. L.C.C. 1950 Appeal Cases, p. 361, see also Behrens v. Bertram Mill's, 1957, 2 Queen's Bench at p. 24. But I do not think those cases warrant so wide a proposition. It seems to me that if the House of Lo......
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Table of cases
...Canada Inc, 2007 FC 516 .................................................................... 303 Behrens v Bertram Mills Circus, Ltd, [1957] 1 All ER 583 ........................................91, 95 Blades v Higgs (1865), 1 ER 1474 (HL) ..........................................................
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A Monkey in the Middle: Reflections on Darwin the Macaque and the (R)evolution of Wild Animals in Canadian Common Law
...employed by courts in this area of law, although there are some exceptions: see, for example, Behrens v Bertram Mills Circus, Ltd , [1957] 1 All ER 583 [ Behrens ]. In this context, “species” means a group of animals commonly understood to have certain distinguishing characteristics. 37 An ......
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AFTER MALCOLMSON V MEHTA: CHARTING NEW WATERS IN THE LAW OF HARASSMENT IN SINGAPORE — CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PERSPECTIVES
...18 Ibid, at p 452. 19 [2000] 2 SLR 446. 20 Ibid, at p 452, para 13, adopting Devlin J’s position in Behrens v Bertram Mills Circus Ltd[1957] 2 QB 1 at p 28. 21 Supra, note 3, at p 471, para 52. 22 This is further discussed below in paras 69—80. 23 Supra, note 3, at p 473, para 55. 24 [1992]......