Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1944 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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33 cases
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Simmons v Swan Brothers Ltd and Forth-Ryco Ltd and Marriott International Services Ltd 1986 Civil Jur. No. 123
...Aviation LtdUNK [1936] 3 All ER 241 Merrington v Ironbridge Metal WorksUNK [1952] 2 All ER 1101 Bowater v Rowley Regis CorporationUNK [1944] 1 All ER 465 Occupiers and Highway Authorities Liability Act 1978 Negligence — Duty of care — Personal injury — Fall into open elevator shaft while wo......
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Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd v Shatwell
...employer and employee almost disappeared. The reasons for this are made plain in the judgment of Goddard L.J. in the case of Bowater v. Rowley Regis Corporation [1944] K.B. 476. He said that the maxim must be applied with extreme caution in the case of master and servant, adding: "Indeed, I......
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London Graving Dock Company Ltd v Horton
...he was volens within the meaning applied to that word in the phrase volenti non fit injuria as interpreted by Scott, L.J., in Bowater v. Rowley Regis Corporation [1944] K.B. 9The Appellants on their part contended that the duty of an invitor was of a lesser order than either of those claim......
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4 books & journal articles
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A social security perspective of employees’ compensation law in Nigeria
...v Quartermaine (1887) 18 QBD 658 at 696, per Bowen LJ; Thrussell v Handyside (1888) 20 QBD 359; Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation (1944) 1 KB 476; Wheeler v New Merton Board Mills Ltd (1933) 2 KB 669 where it was held that volenti non fit injuria cannot be pleaded as a defence in an action......
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Must the Surgeon Take the Pill? Negligence Duty in the Context of Cognitive Enhancement
...on an employer’s responsibilities in relation to workplace stress seeGoodman, ibid. On the volenti defence see Bowater vRowley Regis BC [1944] KB 476 (CA).Imogen Goold and Hannah Maslen© 2014 The Authors. The Modern Law Review © 2014 The Modern Law Review Limited. 85(2014) 77(1) MLR CONCLUS......
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Tortious Liability in China's Motorsports Industry
...Commonwealth of Australia [2005] NSWCA 25, 75.252. Randwick City Council v Muzic [2006] NSWCA 66, ¶ 48.253. Bowater v. Rowley Regis Corp. [1944] KB 476, 479 (Eng.).254. New South Wales v Fahy (2007) 232 CLR 486.255. Id. ¶ 88.256. Bowater, [1944] KB at 479.257. Panel of Eminent Persons, supr......
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Autonomy and vulnerability at the death bed.
...Mass., Harvard University Press, (1987). (47) S S Canetto and J D Hollenshead, above n 43, 180. (48) Bowater v Rowley Regis Corpn. [1944] KB 476, 479 (Scott (49) Section 293(2) Dutch Criminal Code and Article 2 of the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) A......