Donnelly v Joyce

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1973
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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184 cases
  • Hunt v Severs
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 28 April 1994
    ...for care and support which she did not have before. This follows from the analysis of the legal basis of such claims by Megaw L.J. in Donnelly v. Joyce [1974] 1 Q.B. 454 at p. 462. The valuation of this need remains a difficult exercise. In Housecroft v. Burnett [1986] 1 All E.R. 332, O'Con......
  • Lim Xueru and Another v Lim Kai Meng
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 16 October 1992
    ... ... This question raises an interesting point of law. The plaintiffs` argument is founded on Donnelly v Joyce which was followed in Ang Eng Lee & Anor v Lim Lye Soon .But first let me set out the plaintiffs` contention. It is that the agreed special ... ...
  • Housecroft v Burnett
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
  • Hunt v Severs
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 May 1993
    ...practical importance, and also considerable difficulty. 18 Both parties took as their starting point the Court of Appeal decision in Donnelly v Joyce [1974] QB 454. In that case the trial judge awarded damages to an infant plaintiff for wages which his mother had lost by giving up her job t......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...position in the labour market as an “existing loss”. 131 [2016] SGHC 129. 132 [2004] SGHC 147 at [7]. 133 Cap 91A, S 569/2012. 134 [1974] QB 454. 135 Donnelly v Joyce [1974] QB 454, applied in Ang Eng Lee v Lim Lye Soon [1985–1986] SLR(R) 931. 136 See Hunt v Severs [1994] 2 AC 350. 137 [201......
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2014, December 2014
    • 1 December 2014
    ...This head of damage was treated as the plaintiff's reasonable cost of meeting his needs due to the defendant's tort: Donnelly v Joyce[1974] QB 454; Lee Wei Kong v Ng Siok Tong[2012] 2 SLR 85 at [53]; Kuan Kian Seng v Wong Choon Keh[1995] SGHC 43. As a result of the plaintiff's accident, his......
  • COLLATERAL BENEFITS: DEFENDING THE CAUSAL RATIONALE.
    • Canada
    • University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review Vol. 76 No. 1, January 2018
    • 1 January 2018
    ...at 646. (148) Ratych, supra note 50 at 965, McLachlin J. (149) Parry, supra note 17 at 15, Lord Reid. (150) See Donnelly v Joyce (1973), [1974] QB 454 at 463, [ 1973] 3 All ER 475 (CA); The Perene, supra note 26 at 3-4, Newcombe (151) See Sylvester v British Columbia, [1997] 2 SCR 315 at pa......
  • RECOVERING THE COST OF VISITING AN INJURED PLAINTIFF
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1993, December 1993
    • 1 December 1993
    ...1 at page 364. Alternatively, see Kemp & Kemp, The Quantum of Damages (Revised Edition) Volume 1 at paragraph 5-008/6 footnote 35. 14. [1974] 1 QB 454. 15. Id, pages 461 to 462. 16. (1961) 106 CLR 523. 17. Id, pages 527 to 528. 18. Morgan v Hosking(unreported), 15 December 1960 (High Court ......

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