Dominion Natural Gas Company v Collins
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1909 |
| Date | 1909 |
| Year | 1909 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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68 cases
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Desmond Bennett v Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd and Another
...and outstanding for a long time. He relied on the opinion of Lord Dunedin, inDominion Natural Gas Company Ltd v Collins and Perkins [1909] AC 640 [1909] AC 640 at page 646 in support of this stance. The point will be addressed further, below. 22 The pleadings alluded to and the arguments ad......
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Prosser (A.) & Son Ltd v Levy
...the escape of water was due to the act of a subsequent conscious volition. It is clear from the decision of the Privy Council in Dominion Gas Co. v. Collins, 1909 Appeal Cases, page 640, that the onus of showing this is upon them. If they can show that the proximate causeof the damage is th......
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Price v. Smith & Wesson Corp., 2021 ONSC 1114
...(1910), 22 O.L.R. 550 (Div. Ct.), aff’g (1910) 20 O.L.R. 639 (H.C.J.).” [46] [1932] A.C. 562 at pp. 596-597 (H.L.). [47] [1909] A. C. 640 [48] Hobbs Manufacturing Co. v. Shields Estate [1962] S.C.R. 716, aff’g [1962] O.R. 355 (C.A.); McSweeny v. Windsor Gas Company Ltd.......
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‘Factual causation’ and ‘scope of liability’: What's the difference?
...thisreasoning is fatalistic and unscientific (see eg, Moore (2000), n 8 above, 858), but it may still havesome psychological appeal.177 [1909] AC 640.178 ibid, 646 (Lord Dunedin); quoted and applied in Lothian vRickards (1911) 12 CLR 165, 193–195(Isaacs J, dissenting) (Lothian); Rickards vLo......