Brock v Richards

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1951
Date1951
CourtCourt of Appeal

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9 cases
  • Bativala v West
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
    ...was followed in Ellis v. Johnstone [1963] 2 Q.B. 8. BRIDGE[1947] 1 All E.R. 12, H.L.(E.) and Brock v. Richards [1951] 1 K.B. 529; [1951] 1 All E.R. 261, C.A. distinguished. Wright v. Callwood [1950] 2 K.B. 515, C.A. and Ellis v. Johnstone [1963] 2 Q.B. 8; [1963] 2 W.L.R. 176; [1963] 1 All E......
  • Parimala a/p Muthusamy and Others v Projek Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1997
  • Fitzgerald v E. D. and A. D. Cooke Bourns (Farms) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 29 May 1963
    ...further. 24Four years later the question was again debated, this time in this court in the case of ( Brock v. Richards 1951 volume 1 King's Bench Division, page 529). There again the possibility of an action for negligence in the case of an animal escaping on to the highway was envisaged. ......
  • Ellis v Johnstone
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 3 December 1962
    ...a breach of that duty by the Defendant. 20 The question of special circumstances was considered by this Court in the case of Brock v. Richards, 1951, 1, King's Bench, page 529. That again is a case about a horse, which, according to the headnote, jumped out of a field over a hedge on to the......
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  • Archaic immunity from the long face of the law
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 8 June 2022
    ...livestock did not stray onto roadways. One can understand why and how such a decision was made. The subsequent case of Brock v Richards [1951] 1 KB 529 identified special circumstances in which the rule does not apply - where the owner of a domestic animal which strays onto the road knows t......