Canadian Pacific Railway Company v Lockhart

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1942
Date1942
CourtPrivy Council
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146 cases
  • Bohjaraj a/l Kasinathan v Nagarajan a/l Verappan and Another
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2001
  • Ilkiw v Samuels
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 23 May 1963
    ...in accordance with the statement of principle given by Lord Thankort on in delivering the Judgment of the Privy Council in canadian Pacific Railway v. Lockhart (1942 Appeal Cases, page 591). In the course of giving that Judgment Lord Thankerton himself quoted a lengthy extract from Salmond,......
  • Smith v Stages
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 1 December 1987
    ...employment by his employer. The first in point of time—and indeed a locus classicus—is the Privy Council decision in Canadian Pacific Railway CompanyLimited v Lockhart (1942) A.C. 591. In that case a man called Stinson was employed by the railway company. He was based at one of their statio......
  • Roshairee Abd Wahab v Mejar Mustafa Omar and Others
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1996
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Vicarious Liability And Employer's Responsibility
    • Canada
    • Mondaq Canada
    • 6 April 2022
    ...the authorized acts that they may be regarded as modes of doing an authorized act, as shown in Canadian Pacific Railway Co. v. Lockhart, [1942] A.C. 591 at Claimants must show that they have a valid cause of action against an employee for a fault they committed within the scope of their emp......
8 books & journal articles
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Torts. Sixth Edition
    • 25 June 2020
    ...Steamship Co, [1992] 1 SCR 1021, 91 DLR (4th) 289 ............ 76, 205, 206, 207, 208, 211, 214 Canadian Paciic Railway Co v Lockhart, [1942] AC 591, [1942] 2 All ER 464 (PC) .............................................................................388 Canadian Red Cross Society v Walker......
  • WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN SINGAPORE: THE LEGAL CHALLENGE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1999, December 1999
    • 1 December 1999
    ...526, 158 ER 995; Betts v Nielson(1868) 3 Ch App 429 at 441; Whatman v Pearson(1868) LR 3 CP 422; Canadian Pacific Railway Co v Lockhart[1942] 2 All ER 464 (CA); LCC v Cattermoles (Garages) Ltd[1953] 2 All ER 582 (CA)). 130 Salmond and Heuston on the Law of Torts (20th ed, 1993) at 457, cite......
  • Causes of Action in Mass Tort
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Large-Scale Claims Sources of Liability
    • 15 June 2005
    ...rightly be regarded as modes —although improper modes — of doing what has been authorized: Canadian Pacific Railway Co. v. Lockhart , [1942] A.C. 591 at 599 (P.C.). 151 In Bazley v. Curry , 152 the Supreme Court of Canada expanded upon the unauthorized mode test. In that case, the defendant......
  • Cases referred to in 1963
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1963 Preliminary Sections
    • 11 November 2022
    ...N.L.R. 159. 49 Buraimo Adegbite and Ors v. Chief Imam Quadri (1948) 12 W.A.C.A. 398. 123 Canadian Pacific Railway Company v. Lockhart (1942) 2 All E.R. 464. . . 145 Canadian Pacific Railway v. Lockhart 1942 2 A.E.R. 464 AT 468 5 Carr 40 Cr.App. R 188 259 Carr-Briant (1943) 1 K.B. 607 48 Cha......
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