Cassidy v Ministry of Health

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1951
Year1951
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Doctors Are Aggrieved—Should They Be? Gross Negligence Manslaughter and the Culpable Doctor
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 84-4, August 2020
    • 1 August 2020
    ...of the act or omission, see Scott v London and St Katherine Docks Co (1865) 3 H &C 596, [601] Erle CJ, Cassidy v Ministry of Health [1951] 2 KB 343. Note to rebut the inference of negligence the defendant’sexplanation must be plausible, see Saunders v Leeds Western HA (1993) 4 Med LR 355.16......
  • Case Note
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...v Dockers Marine Pte Ltd[2010] 1 SLR 786; Mohd bin Sapri v Soil-Build (Pte) Ltd[1996] 2 SLR(R) 223. 25Cassidy v Ministry of Health[1951] 2 KB 343; Hii Chi Kok v Ooi Peng Jin London Lucien[2016] 2 SLR 544. 26Woodland v Swimming Teachers Association[2014] AC 537; Commonwealth of Australia v I......
  • Leichhardt Municipal Council v. Montgomery: non-delegable duties and roads authorities.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 32 No. 1, April 2008
    • 1 April 2008
    ...553, 601-5 (Samuels JA); Albrighton v Royal Prince Alfred Hospital [1980] 2 NSWLR 542, 561-2 (Reynolds JA); Cassidy v Ministry of Health [1951] 2 KB 343, 365 (Denning (62) Brodie (2001) 206 CLR 512. (63) This is especially so given the recent implementation of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (......
  • Taking stock of res IPSA loquitur: reflections on its applicability to the unsuspecting occupier of premises
    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 10-1, June 2000
    • 1 June 2000
    ...(C.A); [1953] 1 S.C.R. 143, discussed by G.H.L. Fridman in The Law of Torts in Canada 30 (Vol. 1) (1989) ;Cassidy v. Ministry of Health [1951] 2 K.B. 343; Fish v. Kapur [1948]2 All E.R. 176; Mohan v. Osborne [1939] 2 K.B. 14. pavement; and where an aircraft has crashed on take off. Of the n......
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