GEORGE SYME Pursuer against SCOTTISH BORDERS COUNCIL Defenders

JurisdictionScotland
Date2002
CourtCourt of Session (Outer House)
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  • Ruth Margaret Macdonald V. Aberdeenshire Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 19 October 2013
    ...of the English statute, the Highways Act 1980, and the court did not go beyond the statute. In Syme v Scottish Borders Council 2003 SLT 601 there were no relevant averments of a common law case of negligence. In Macdonald v Scottish Ministers 2004 RepLR 16, the existence of a common law dut......
  • University College Cork v Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 5 October 2015
    ...locus in question, and which required that the hazard should have been dealt with preaccident. ( Syme v Scottish Borders Council [2003] S.L.T. 601, para. 831 984. Observation #28: In this case, there were "special circumstances" known to ESB in the form of weather forecasts received, its kn......
  • Mr Colin Syme V. East Lothian Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Sheriff Court
    • 14 November 2011
    ...Grant v Lothian Regional Council 1988 SLT 533; Gibson v Strathclyde Regional Council 1993 SLT 1243; and Syme v Scottish Borders Council 2003 SLT 601. 12 Mr McNaughtan then submitted that on the basis of those authorities, the pursuer's case could be attacked in respect of his failure to ple......
  • Ruth Margaret Macdonald V. Aberdeenshire Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 14 June 2012
    ...at the locus; or that it would have been reasonable and practicable to take the required steps in time. In Syme v Scottish Borders Council 2003 SLT 601 the pursuer raised an action of damages against the defenders in respect of injuries which he averred he had sustained when he slipped and ......
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