Capital & Counties Plc v Hampshire County Council
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 28 March 1996 |
Date | 28 March 1996 |
Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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13 cases
- OLL Ltd v Secretary of State for Transport
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Barrett v Enfield London Borough Council
...is acting or purporting to act pursuant to statutory powers or duties. He accepts, at p. 378 the principle assumed in Capital Counties Plc. v. Hampshire County Council [1997] Q.B. 1004, 1040 namely, "there is no general immunity for professionals or others carrying out difficult tasks in st......
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Costello v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police
...officers. There are, however, decisions about public rescue services which, in my view, have some relevance. 43In Capital & Counties plc v. Hampshire County Council [1997] Q.B. 1004, the Court of Appeal held that the fire brigade are not under a common law duty to answer a call for help and......
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Kent v Griffiths (No.2)
...defence the LAS admitted that it was under a duty to respond. However, after the decision of this Court in the case of Capital & Counties Plc v Hampshire County Council [1997] QB 1004.(Stuart-Smith, Potter and Judge LJJ) that a fire brigade was not under a common law duty to answer calls to......
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2 books & journal articles
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Public or Private? Duty of Care in a Statutory Framework: Stovin v Wise in the House of Lords
...contrast Swinney vChief Constable of the Northumbria Police [1996] 3 All ER 449 and Capitaland Counties plc vHampshire County Council [1996] 4 All ER 336.July 1997] Stovin vWiseThe Modern Law Review Limited 1997 In XvBeds, Lord Browne-Wilkinson disavowed any intention to lay down generalpri......
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‘Caparo Under Fire’: a Study into the Effects upon the Fire Service of Liability in Negligence
...Times 7 March 1997. Infavour of liability, albeit on limited terms: Capital and Counties and Digital Equipment vHampshireCounty Council [1996] 1 WLR 1553. See further J. Hartshorne, ‘Suing the Saviours – the liability innegligence of the fire service’ (1996) 12 Professional Negligence 85.31......