Gorris v Scott
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1865 |
| Court | Exchequer |
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50 cases
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Donaghey v Boulton & Paul Ltd
...may be that he would not have lost his balance, or, if he did, as he himself said, that he would not have fallen through the hole. 22In Gorris v. Scott [1874] L.R. 9 Exch. 125, the mischief at which the regulation was directed was the spreading of disease, not the prevention of the sheep b......
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Grant v National Coal Board
...have been much pressed by the cogent arguments to be found in the judgments under appeal. 8The principle here invoked is to be found in Gorris v. Scott L.R. 9 Ex. 125. It is accurately stated in the first paragraph of the headnote: "When a statute creates a duty with the object of preventi......
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Gatehouse v John Summers & Sons Ltd
...the defect in theelectrical joint and is therefore caused by a breach of Regulation 6. 17 We were pressed with the well-known case of Gorris v. Scott in Law Reports 9 Exchequer, at page 125, which shows that where certain regulations or statutory provisions are made for one object and the d......
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Solomons v R Gertzenstein Ltd
...whether this was the intention of the Legislature, it is material, as Chief Baron Kelly pointed out in giving judgment in the case of Gorrie v. Scott (Law Reports, 9 Exchequer, E 125) to consider for whose benefit the Act was passed, whether it was passed in the interests of the public at l......
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Risk and Remoteness of Damage in Negligence
...Such an approach has long been familiar in the context of harm that arises out of the breach of astatutory rule, see Gorris vScott (1874) LR 9 Exch 125 and, more recently, Empress Cars(Abertillery) Ltd vNational Rivers Authority [1999] 2 AC 22. There the court determines the scope ofthe dut......
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Failure of the basis for breach of statutory duty in tort
...[1956] 1 Q.B. 511 ; Bailey v. Ayr Engineering Co. Ltd [1959] 1 Q.B. 183; X v. BedfordshireC.C. [1995] 2 A.C. 633; Gorris v. Scott (1874) L.R. 9 Exch 125; Payne v. Weldless Steel Tube Co. Ltd [l956] 1 Q.B. 196; Richardson v. Pitt-Stanley [1995] 1 All E.R. 640; R v. Deputy Governor of Parkhur......