Chin Keow v Government of Malaysia
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1967 |
| Date | 1967 |
| Year | 1967 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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Global Development Corporation Ltd v Beverly McNaughton
...by McNair J. in Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 W.L.R. 582, 586, approved by the Privy Council in Chin Keow v. Government of Malaysia [1967] 1 W.L.R. 813, 816: ‘… where you get a situation which involves the use of some special skill or competence, then the test as to......
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Genas (Howard) v Attorney General of Jamaica and Others
...and another [1981] 1 All ER 267, Maynard v West Midlands Regional Health Authority [1985] 1 All ER 635, Chin Keow v The Government of Malaysia and another [1967] 1 WLR 812 and MILLEN v UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE WEST INDIES BOARD OF MAMAGEMENT (1986) 44 WIR 274. He placed particular relia......
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Midland Bank Trust Company Ltd v Hett, Stubbs & Kemp
...Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 W.L.R. 582; [1957] 2 All E.R. 118. Chin Keow v. Government of Malaysia [1967] 1 W.L.R. 813, P.C. Fleming v. Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Co. (1878) 4 Q.B.D. 81, C.A. Greaves & Co. (Contractors) Ltd. v. Baynham Meikle &......
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Tort Law
...In Singapore, the authority importing Bolam has long been the Privy Council decision in the case of Chin Keow v Government of Malaysia[1967] 1 WLR 813, which applied the formulation of the standard of care of articulated by McNair J in his famous direction to the jury in Bolam (at 586): “[W......