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Dorset Yacht Company Ltd v Home Office

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Reid,Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest,Viscount Dilhorne,Lord Pearson,Lord Diplock
Judgment Date06 May 1970
Judgment citation (vLex)[1970] UKHL J0506-1
Date06 May 1970
CourtHouse of Lords
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711 cases
  • Selvaraju a/l Velasamy v Abdullah Ali Kutty
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2009
  • Hamida Begum (on behalf of MD Khalil Mollah) v Maran (UK) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 March 2021
    ...was or could be anticipated, Mr Hermer relied on the well-known decision of the House of Lords in Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Limited [1970] AC 1004, and the following passage from Lord Reid's speech: “These cases show that, where human action forms one of the links between the original w......
  • Ennis v Child and Family Agency
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 18 May 2015
    ...special case. 59 He began his consideration by referring to the decision in the House of Lords inDorset Yacht Co. Limited v. Home Office [1970] AC 1004. 60 In my view this decision has little, if any, relevance having regard to the facts of the present case. InDorset Yacht, three young offe......
  • Abdul Malek bin Idrus v Tan Jee Han
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2013
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9 firm's commentaries
  • The case of the sugar in the concrete: contaminated cargo
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 10 June 2015
    ...Wagon Mound (No 2) [1967] AC 617; Bolton v Stone [1951] AC 850, Koufos v Czarnikow Ltd [1969] 1 AC 350; Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office [1970] AC 1004; Mount Isa Mines Ltd v Pusey 125 CLR 383 and Caterson v Commissioner for Railways 128 CLR His Honour held that it was "not foreseeable pri......
  • 'Failure To Remove' Claims: Some Further Developments
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 24 January 2022
    ...LJ referred to the case law on the 'control exception' (iii) in the article cited in Poole. Of Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office [1970] AC 1004, it was said that of the Borstal officers .... the officers' control over the trainees was (or should have been) complete, the trainees were a know......
  • Tindall And Another v Chief Constable Of Thames Valley Police And Another [2022] EWCA Civ 25
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 26 January 2022
    ...the source of danger or had assumed responsibility to protect the claimant from harm: see, for example, Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office [1970] AC 1004 , as explained in Gorringe v Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council [2004] 1 WLR 1057 , para This line of argument was developed by the C......
  • Tindall And Another v Chief Constable Of Thames Valley Police And Another [2022] EWCA Civ 25
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 26 January 2022
    ...the source of danger or had assumed responsibility to protect the claimant from harm: see, for example, Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office [1970] AC 1004 , as explained in Gorringe v Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council [2004] 1 WLR 1057 , para This line of argument was developed by the C......
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51 books & journal articles
  • Mandatory sentencing for people smuggling: issues of law and policy.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 36 No. 2, August 2012
    • 1 August 2012
    ...[6] (Gleeson CJ). (327) See, eg, Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co [1951] 2 KB 164, 178 (Denning LJ); Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd [1970] AC 1004, 1032 (Lord Reid); Williams v New York, 127 NE 2d 545, 550 (Froessel J) (NY Ct App, 1955); Andrews v Parker [1973] Qd R 33, 104 (Stable J)......
  • Government liability in negligence.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 32 No. 1, April 2008
    • 1 April 2008
    ...and Gummow JJ). (180) Crimmins (1999) 200 CLR 1; Brodie (2001) 206 CLR 512; Pyrenees (1998) 192 CLR 330. (181) See above Part VII. (182) [1970] AC 1004, 1031 (Lord Reid), 1067-8 (Lord (183) [1978] AC 728, 758 (Lord Wilberforce). (184) (1985) 157 CLR 424, 464-5 (Mason J), 484-5 (Brennan J), ......
  • THE PROMISE OF UNIVERSALITY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...11 QBD 503 at 509. 19[1932] AC 562. 20Donoghue v Stevenson[1932] AC 562 at 581. 21Donoghue v Stevenson[1932] AC 562 at 581. 22[1970] AC 1004. 23 Gary Chan, The Law of Torts in Singapore (Academy Publishing, 2011) at p 76. 24Anns v Merton London Borough Council[1978] AC 728 at 751. 25 Gary C......
  • The emergence of solicitors’ tortious liability and the award of damages
    • United Kingdom
    • Emerald Journal of Financial Crime No. 10-4, October 2003
    • 1 October 2003
    ...was not damaged as a conse-quence of any act or omission of public ocialsas was the plainti's yacht in Dorset Yacht Co. Ltdv Home Oce [1970] AC 1004. He lost nothingof his own, nor was any property of hisdamaged, destroyed or aected in any way; hishealth was not touched.'49Therefore rec......
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