Burnett v Grampian Fire and Rescue Services

JurisdictionScotland
Year2007
Date2007
CourtCourt of Session (Outer House)
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11 cases
  • Elizabeth Miller (ap) V. Greater Glasgow Nhs Board
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 14 May 2008
    ...who quoted with approval Lord Browne-Wilkinson in the previous case. I was then referred to Burnett v Grampian Fire and Rescue Service 2007 S.L.T.61. She sought to distinguish this case and submitted that specific averments had been made in the pleadings about competence to the effect that ......
  • James Braes V. The Keeper Of The Registers Of Scotland
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 30 December 2009
    ...County Council, Harris v Evans, Rowley v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Burnett v Grampian Fire and Rescue Services 2007 SLT 61 and The Ministry of Housing v Sharp. They submitted that the following propositions were vouched by these cases: (1) Whether or not a common law duty wi......
  • Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales Police
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 28 January 2015
    ...Ordinary took a different direction: Duff v Highlands and Islands Fire Board 1995 SLT 1362 and Burnett v Grampian Fire and Rescue Services 2007 SLT 61. In Duff the fire service attended a house fire and apparently extinguished it. After they left, fire broke out again destroying the propert......
  • Aitken v Scottish Ambulance Service
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session (Outer House)
    • Invalid date
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2 books & journal articles
  • Analysis
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , June 2009
    • 1 September 2009
    ...and omission comparable to that which appears to exist in the English law of tort between misfeasance and non-feasance”.1111[2007] CSOH 3, 2007 SLT 61 at para 13. After all, Lord Atkin did not distinguish the two in Donoghue v Stevenson.12121932 SC (HL) 31 at 44. Nor, however, did he distin......
  • Public Authority Liability: Stifling the Common Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , June 2009
    • 1 June 2009
    ...should they make matters worse. Capital has since been rejected in Scotland by Burnett v Grampian Fire and Rescue Service,99[2007] CSOH 3, 2007 SLT 61. which held that, having attended a fire, a duty was owed to take all reasonable steps to extinguish it. In any event, focusing on the intro......

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