Bird v Pearce

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1978
Year1978
Date1978
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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14 cases
  • Gorringe v Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 May 2002
    ...of the 1997 'Watkins Remedy'. Further still, in respect of liability and negligence; see Bird v Pearce & Anor and Somerset County Council [1978] RTR 290." Finally, the Judge dealt with the question of contributory negligence. In this respect he said (paragraph 227): "A speed of about 50mph ......
  • Devon CC v TR
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 April 2013
  • Sandhar and Another v Department of Transport, Environment and the Regions
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 November 2004
    ...who was alleged to have been negligent had impliedly undertaken to exercise proper professional skill. Lord Hoffmann also referred to Bird v Pearce [1979] RTR 369 (to which I shall refer later in this judgment) which he described as a difficult case. He expressed no view about whether it w......
  • Gorringe v Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 1 April 2004
    ...cited and which was applied by the majority in Stovin v Wise. 42 An attempt to apply similar reasoning appears in the difficult case of Bird v Pearce [1979] RTR 369. The plaintiff was a passenger in a car on a major road which who was injured in a collision with a car which emerged from a ......
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