Daniel v Metropolitan Railway Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1865
Date1865
CourtHouse of Lords
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6 cases
  • Biffa Waste Services Ltd v Maschinenfabrik Ernst Hese GmbH
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Technology and Construction Court)
    • 31 October 2008
    ...at 447 and Rainham Chemical Works v. Belvedere Fish Guano [1921] 2 AC 465 at 477 and 490, 491, together with the decisions in Daniel v. Metropolitan Railway (1871) LR 5 HL 45 and Read v. Lyons [1947] AC 156 which cast doubt on the 270 Secondly, the High Court of Australia in Stevens v. B......
  • David Stewart+doreen Kennedy Stewart V. Aftab Ahmed Malik
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 3 February 2009
    ...the right to rely upon individuals sufficiently experienced being entrusted with relevant work (Daniel v Metropolitan Railway Company (1871) L.R. 5 H.L. 45, per Lord Westbury at page 61). A strict liability rule was not required given the right of action available to the respondents against......
  • Stoneman v Lyons
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Ng Huat Seng and another v Munib Mohammad Madni and another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 22 June 2016
    ...control. In the 19th century decision of the House of Lords in David Daniel v The Directors, &C, of the Metropolitan Railway Company (1871) LR 5 HL 45 at 61, Lord Westbury put the point in the following terms: … the ordinary business of life could not go on if we had not a right to rely upo......
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