British Fame (Owners) v Macgregor (Owners)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1941
Year1941
CourtHouse of Lords

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    • British Virgin Islands
    • Court of Appeal (British Virgin Islands)
    • 21 November 2011
    ...trial judge would be concerned with the blameworthiness of each party as well as the relative importance of the acts causing the damage. The MacGregor [1943] A.C. 197 applied; Davies v Swan Motor Co. (Swansea) Ltd. [1949] 2 K.B. 291 applied. 8. In the present appeal, the trial judge did n......
  • Nautical Challenge Ltd v Evergreen Marine (UK) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Admiralty)
    • 8 February 2022
    ...the three vessels as contributing causes of the damage or loss”. The nature of the exercise was described by Lord Wright in The MacGregor [1943] AC 197 at p.200 (in a passage followed in The Koningin Juliana [1975] 2 Lloyd's Reports by Lord Simon at p.115) as follows: “a question of the deg......
  • Brown v Thompson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 8 December 1967
    ...practice of this court. Perhaps at the risk of being tedious in giving this reminder, the locus classicue of course, is the case of THE MACGREGOR, roported in (1943) AppealCases at page 197. It was an Admiralty decision, which went to the House of Lords, and the speech to which I desire to ......
  • Baker v Willoughby
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 December 1968
    ...criticise him for this as the matter is often one of impression and not susceptible of precise calculation. As Lord Wright said in British Fame v. Macgregor (1943 Appeal Cases 197 at page 201): "It is a question of the degree of fault depending on a trained and expert judgment considering ......
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  • APPEALS FROM DISCRETIONS, SATISFACTIONS AND VALUE JUDGMENTS: REVIEWING THE HOUSE RULES.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 41 No. 2, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...in n 69. In Podrebersek v Australian Iron & Steel Pty Ltd (1985) 59 ALR 529, 532, the High Court quoted British Fame v Macgregor [1943] AC 197, 201, where Lord Wright said that a finding on a question of apportionment is a finding upon 'a question ... not of principle or of positive fin......